Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends.

He bought an old phone booth — white with glass panes — put it in his garden on a windy hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and “installed” a rotary phone, with no wires connecting it to anything.

Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no deliveries of food and no hugs. For months afterward ...

Video games made a massive comeback in the mid-1980s after nearly disappearing from the market. Nintendo released an ...