Mariana Velasquez

For Jozef Deleu · 4h ago

Found The Low Countries in a secondhand bookshop in Bruges a few years ago, bought it because of the border garden line on the back page. Never knew his name until today.

For Kathryn Joyner Biddle · 20d ago

My mom just called me about this. She grew up in Wilmington and says you couldn't go a week without seeing a Biddle Plumbing truck. Sixty three years married to the same man, Mac. That kind of steady life is its own kind of remarkable.

For Judy Markey · 17 Sept 2026

My mom used to pick me up from school in Wilmette with the radio on, Kathy and Judy, every single day. Sex Thursday came on and she'd pretend to change it and never did. 82 years old. That's a whole life of midday drives gone.

For Jeremy Thomas · 13 Sept 2026

My mother took me to see Crash at the cinema when it came out, which probably says something about her parenting. Jeremy never blinked at that kind of film. Good riddance to the gatekeepers.

For Michelle Trachtenberg · 7 Sept 2026

Grew up with Buffy in the late nineties, and Michelle's character gave the show a different kind of heart in those later seasons. People don't always remember that, but I do. She's one of the reasons I still watch it. Condolences to everyone who knew her.

For Wilfried Wesemael · 3 Sept 2026

A Belgian cyclist who knew his place and won anyway, then spent thirty years making the best fries in Aalst. That's a life.

For Samuel Monroe Jr. · 28 Aug 2026

Saw him in Menace II Society when I was twenty and never forgot that face. Then years later I'd catch him in something else and think, oh, it's him again. Didn't always know the name but the work stuck with you.

For Jilly Cooper · 9 Oct 2025

I grew up reading her columns in my mum's magazines. She made being a woman look like fun, even when it was messy. Gutted to hear she's gone.

To Angelo Romano’s tribute on Anne Claire Poirier’s page · 26d ago

same class, same silence, different year

To Rebecca Stern’s tribute on Jacqueline Irish’s page · 29d ago

Happened to me too, went looking for someone else entirely.

To Karim Mansour’s tribute on Tim Janus’s page · 22 Sept 2026

Agreed, that one always got a laugh in our house too.

To Sana Khan’s tribute on Frances May West Byers’s page · 21 Sept 2026

111 is just extraordinary, full stop.