Theo Pauline Nestor

David Chelsea
To celebrate Modern Love’s 15th anniversary this month, we’re publishing a series of special features — three classic essays from the column’s early years and four conversations with writers whose stories were adapted for the television series that began streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Oct. 18.
This week we present the third Modern Love essay ever published, Theo Pauline Nestor’s bracing account of divorce, which swamped our inboxes with email, our first glimpse of the column...

This weekend is emotional flashback weekend. With the New York Times‘ reprinting of my essay “The Chicken’s in the Oven, My Husband’s Out the Door,” my life is rolling back to that Sunday morning in the fall of 2004 when I was newly divorced and a very personal part of my life was arriving on doorsteps in blue bags.
It was the best of times: After seven solid years of writing and a few victories and a lot of disappointments, I’d caught a lucky break. Thanks to Modern Love Editor Daniel Jones,...

“Talk about women showing up for women!” the director of the University of Washington’s Graduate Lecture Series said to a sold-out auditorium at Anita Hill’s Nov. 6 lecture, and then she told us the most surprising thing: Dr. Christine Blasey Ford would be introducing Hill.
Ford walked out onto the Seattle stage, and the crowd leapt up. Applause and cheers filled the room, transforming the staid academic atmosphere instantly into a ticker-tape parade. We’d come out to see a hero from a long-a...

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LAST SUMMER, I SUDDENLY became acutely aware of the swift passing of time. My younger daughter, Grace, would be a high school senior in just a few months and then headed to college. The inevitability of her departure ushered in a desire to make time stand still, or at the very least to wring ever...

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Natalie Goldberg & Julia Cameron, bestselling authors of landmark books on unleashing creativity, both found inspiration in their adopted home state of New Mexico.
Attend Writing Intensive with Cameron and Goldberg December 6
Inspired by writing this article, Theo Pauline Nestor created the Black...

Divorce Is The Worst is the book you should bravely buy for your divorcing friend. You could leave it in your friend’s car after you go out for tea with him. You could go by her house with a casserole (divorce is like a death; we need the casseroles), and in the bag with the lasagna, the wine, th...