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June 11, 2023 | Your Home: Summer Living

Dark green Blu Dot chairs add color to the screened porch.

A widower builds a net-zero home in Maine to gather with his grown children

The owners recently screened in the covered porch at the back of the home.

After renting a designer’s Vermont vacation home, they decided to buy their own

Designer Jess Cooney jumps off the dock behind her house, newly stained dark green to blend with the trees, on Lake Garfield in the Berkshires.

Floor-to-ceiling windows with a lake view persuade a designer to rehab a Berkshires home

The latest advice

I'm not allowed to meet my boyfriend's kids

This week's daters: Caitlin and Matt

Blind date: ‘We go to the same gym’

My neighbor said no when I asked to golf with her

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This week's columns

A home health aide steadies her client as he exercises at home.

Finding a home health aide to care for sick loved ones shouldn’t be this hard. (Not here.)

Three out of four patients referred to home health agencies by hospitals are getting turned away. We can do better.

The lying liars who ghost women and how I unknowingly fell for one

On my first visit to his house, he told me he was crazy about me. I felt the same.

Fried Eggs With Toasted Pearl Couscous and Sumac

Recipes: Eggs fried, baked, or scrambled for Father’s Day or any day

Upgraded recipes that even kids can put together themselves.

This four-season sunroom in Lynnfield was a drafty afterthought until the owners had it remodeled.

Home design inspiration: Ideas for a four-season sunroom

Rethinking the layout and removing a set of stairs opens up the space.

Your Week ahead
Five things to do around Boston, June 12-18
Dance to Whitney Houston, attend a Juneteenth block party, and more.

On the Block
For sale: Homes with great porches in Arlington
PorchFest celebrations of neighbors and music will take place in 10 Greater Boston communities this month, including in Arlington on June 17.

CommentsLetters to the editor of the Globe Magazine
Readers share their delight with a pair of Connections columns and some criticism of Top Spots to Live and advice on tipping.

Past Perspectives

We need to better regulate our banks. Even the father of capitalism thought so.

I spent $900 on Taylor Swift tickets and won’t even get inside Gillette

Everyone has pandemic amnesia. But we’re not ready for the next big one.

There are 300,000 edible plant species on earth. Why do we eat so few of them?

June 4, 2023

I went searching for a relative who escaped the Holocaust. I found a secret some want to forget.

My decades-long quest to find the lone survivor of a massacre that wiped out a branch of our Jewish family in Poland — and the hidden truth about the killers. By Judy Rakowsky

Thomas, the moray eel.

What it’s like to dive in the New England Aquarium’s giant tank (watch out for Thomas the eel)

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to dive inside the Giant Ocean Tank. Finally I got to find out.

May 21, 2023

The French King Bridge, opened in 1932, spans the Connecticut River between Erving and Gill.

This bridge needed lifesaving barriers. It took a grieving mother to get them.

The author with his older sister and grandfather, who are wearing hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, on New Year’s Day in 1984.

I struggled with my Korean-American name. Now I realize it was a gift.

May 14, 2023 | Tech Power Players

Meet the most influential people in Greater Boston’s tech industry

The Boston Globe’s second annual Tech Power Players list tells the story of New England innovation in a challenging economic climate.

Recommended reads

Smugglers dumped millions in drugs off Maine’s coast. Struggling fishermen saw a jackpot.

The fishermen called the illicit haul “sea hash.” But what would they do with it?

An alleged drug trafficker, a detective trying to take him down, and the woman caught in the middle

A colorful illustration of some popular foods of summer. From left to right: a lobster, a soft serve ice cream cone, a cup of Del's frozen lemonade, a hotdog and a cheeseburger.

24 perfect foods worth a New England road trip this summer

James Tellin and John O’Reilly in a 2017 photograph by Seth David Rubin.

In the ’60s, a gay couple made their Worcester home into a refuge of art and community

Did you miss any 2022 features? Explore our story archive.

Catch up on features you may have missed in 2021

Look back at the magazine's feature stories from 2020

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

Top Spots to Live: Boston NeighborhoodsTop Spots to Live: West of BostonTop Spots to Live: North of BostonTop Spots to Live: South of Boston

Special Projects

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023

A guide to 36 communities where home buyers are flocking — and prices are surging.

Bostonian of the Year 2022

In the face of the ugliest adversity, legendary Celtic Bill Russell fought for and lived a beautiful life for himself and for us. A champion of basketball and human rights, Bill Russell is the 2022 Bostonian of the Year. Read six tributes to No. 6.

Find out who received an Honorable Mention, and explore the full special issue.

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

After a couple of long, weird years, companies are pulling out all the stops to keep employees happy.

An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Kate Price remembers something terrible

An authority on child sex trafficking, she spent decades trying to understand whether the unthinkable happened to her, too.

Women & Power 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

Tyrone Anthony Figueroa teaching at East Boston High School.

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’

A collage of historic front pages from The Boston Globe from over its 150 year history.

150 years of The Boston Globe