Notebook

What often struck me when I lived in Italy was the way people identified themselves as from Tuscany, the Veneto [...]

My childhood home was a hotbed of the conservative movement. Free-market economist Milton Friedman, who presided over conservative economics from [...]

I made an interesting discovery a few weeks ago while searching for photos of my father to share on Facebook [...]

Uno tira l’altro, or “One pulls another.” While this Italian expression may sound like an Iron Curtain slogan —“One pulls [...]

Working at my desk the other day, I felt the house cool as dusk fell. But since it's officially spring [...]

Not a day goes by that I don't notice an example of an American trend I wasn't aware of during [...]

For columnist Madeleine Johnson, thinking back to long ago Midwestern evenings means card games and music, Lottie and Mildred presiding.

Whenever I used to tell people that I lived in Italy, the response was almost inevitable. "Oh, that's always been [...]

The highlight of my 2018 was a trip to France to commemorate the centenary of the World War I Armistice, [...]

When columnist Madeleine Johnson was young, one Christmas catalog fit all. Not so in 21st-century America, a nation of tribes.

More than a year ago, I moved to rural New Hampshire from Milan, where I had lived for 30 years. [...]

Columnist Madeleine Johnson had a father who warned her about the perils of male aggression, and those warnings endure.