The final week of 2020.

Welcome. It’s the final week of the 12 months, a time when many people would possibly usually be visiting with household and mates. This 12 months has required some reconfiguring of vacation plans: You could be staying inside, together with your ordinary brood or by yourself; you could be working or in search of work; busy or in search of diversion. If you end up with the time and inclination to do some studying, there are a bunch of tradition and way of life tales in The Times that it’s best to try.

I like this examination, by Nina Siegal, of the life and work of the artist Ulay. Most of us received’t be visiting the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to see the retrospective of his work, however this text is the subsequent neatest thing.

Ben Sisario’s story concerning the album that the country-rock musician Steve Earle recorded of songs by his son, Justin Townes Earle, who died this summer season, is gorgeous and transporting.

And don’t miss Dorie Greenspan’s story of a long time of New Year’s Eve dinners in Paris, which finishes with an all-American recipe for mulling-spice cake with cream-cheese frosting.

I hope you get pleasure from these items as a lot as I did. When you’re executed, dive into some extra “Best of 2020” suggestions from At Home readers.

• If you actually need to escape, learn “Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story,” by Bess Kalb. You will snicker and cry, and I promise you’ll really feel far more hopeful if you end up executed. —Ricky, 60, Miami Beach

• I’m on my second hearken to the “Dolly Parton’s America” podcast. Because every thing is developing Dolly this 12 months and for good cause — the lady is manufactured from relentless constructive power and pleasure. And wigs. Lots of wigs. —Rebecca, 48, Centennial, Colo.

• The ebook “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,” by Betty Edwards. Doing an train on daily basis has taught me a long-coveted new ability! —Aurelia, 19, New Haven, Conn.

• I grew to become an knowledgeable in making granola. I handed it out all year long to household, neighbors and mates. It was an enormous hit and really satisfying to supply some pleasure to others. —David, 58, Scotch Plains, N.J.

• I attempted a meditation app referred to as “Ten Percent Happier,” beneficial by my daughters. I hadn’t skilled something this life-changing shortly. I’m making an attempt onerous to not be that girl who tells everybody they need to strive meditation … however you actually ought to strive meditation! —Anne, 62, Hood River, Ore.

• At the tip of March, my husband urged now we have a particular meal as soon as every week. It can be fancier than ordinary, embody a primary course and dessert, and we’d gown up as if we had been going out to dinner. We have executed this each week, and on the finish of the 12 months could have had 41 such meals. —Marisue, 83, Orono, Maine

• “The Anthropocene Reviewed,” a podcast hosted by John Green, considers particular segments of our human-centered world utilizing a 5-star ranking format. It is witty, informative, melancholic, and hopeful. —Amanda, 31, Pittsburgh, Penn.

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