Articles by Joann Klimkiewicz

‘“No cellphones. Read more

In this gadgety nation enamored of tech toys and i-everything, to plug in is to simplify our hectic daily lives as we digitally, and literally, connect with the world beyond our front doors. Read more

When it came time to ask Amanda Costello to the junior prom, Joe Moreau couldn’t bear to lean against a locker and stammer through the question between classes. Read more

I was bent over a food processor at a Saturday afternoon cooking class in Hartford, Conn., a few weeks ago, toiling on my assigned recipe of baba ghanouj, when a fellow student came up behind me and asked: “You really like Oprah Winfrey, huh?” Read more

Mischa, Mischa, Mischa. Read more

The books come wrapped in jackets of purple and pastel pink, their titles urgent and peppered with numbers and exclamation points of the “Six Ways to Know if He’s the One!” Read more

Every day, we smear and spritz ourselves without a second thought. Read more

The phone call came about two months ago. Read more