Sign in

Meredith Goldstein

@meredithgoldstein.bsky.social
539 followers 43 following 45 posts

Boston Globe Love Letters advice columnist and podcast host. Author of some books about love, fiction and non. Rewatching the Vampire Diaries again somehow.

PostsRepliesMedia
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This podcast episode … well, it sells itself. Enjoy some Jeff Hiller, who puts me in a good mood. @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social link.chtbl.com/LoveLettersI...
Jeff Hiller, seen here at an Emmys event, is on the Love Letters podcast. Check out the new episode.
000
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
New Edition Day. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/a...
bostonglobe.com
New Edition reflects on Orchard Park roots and the Roxbury community that inspired them - The Boston Globe
Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown, and Ronnie DeVoe open up about the upcoming New Edition Day festivities and reflect on the group's legacy.
010
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Yvonne Abraham @yabraham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A huge loss for the Globe, and for all who loved him.
bostonglobe.com
Globe photo editor killed while bicycling in rural Illinois - The Boston Globe
Lloyd Young, 57, of Boston, was struck and killed Saturday in McLean County in Illinois.
1337679
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 28/08/2025
More than 40 years ago, legendary R&B group New Edition formed in Boston. Now the group is set to receive a day and street in the city dedicated to them. “To receive that from your hometown," said Ricky Bell, "means more than any other accolades that we have received so far...”
trib.al
‘It’s where our heart is.’ New Edition to be honored in Roxbury. - The Boston Globe
Boston will honor New Edition, the Roxbury-born R&B group, on Aug. 30 as part of “For the Culture Week,” which also celebrates Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
0202
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Steph Machado @stephmachado.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
NEW: The civilian board that oversees Providence police found officers violated city ordinance and police dept policy multiple times by assisting ICE in civil immigrant enforcement on July 13 Police see the situation differently Read more + read the full decision + watch the video
bostonglobe.com
Providence police helped ICE, violating city ordinance, oversight panel finds - The Boston Globe
The Providence External Review Authority said the officers’ actions on July constitutes both intelligence-sharing and direct assistance with civil immigration enforcement.
1011741
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We love a snarky villain. 🐉 ICYMI: @ianxcarlos.bsky.social @davidalexander.bsky.social + @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social talked The Magicians s2 ep11 “The Rattening” YouTube: tinyurl.com/3rxee3ce Spotify: tinyurl.com/mr2ccemj Apple: tinyurl.com/2c7c6p3s
161
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
✨New Ep✨ @ianxcarlos.bsky.social @lazmarquez.bsky.social @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social + @csmith03.bsky.social talk The Magicians s2 ep8 'Word as Bond' YouTube: youtu.be/7CGO5VprjH0 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Pps... Apple Pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Cover photo for our pod ep on The Magicians s2 ep8 'Word as Bond' with action figure Quentin going over a document on a desk with julia + Margo standing on the fillory throne behind them and Alice rising above everyone like Phoenix from The X-Men and fire behind them allphoto collage of all 4 folks on for this episode - Ian, Colin, Laz, and Meredith
074
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
On the latest My Nudie Judy, @ianxcarlos.bsky.social and Zach talked with @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social about their friendship. ✨ You can watch this recording, access a ton of bonus content, join our Discord, and more starting at $5 a month: patreon.com/posts/my-nudie-judy-do-131169769
142
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our advice? 🚗 Make traffic less miserable by binging Season 10 of the Love Letters podcast, hosted by @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social. Go from our premiere, which is all about dating as a clown, to our finale, which is all about becoming a butterfly. 🦋 Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧
link.chtbl.com
Love Letters
Love stories. Dating stories. Relationship stories. Stories about romance, marriage, partnership, sex, loss, and the human heart. Served with a side of advice. Hosted by Boston Globe advice columnist ...
001
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/28/l... It’s ok to be wet (Sorry)
bostonglobe.com
We’re depressed about all the recent rain. So we asked a Seattle advice columnist what to do. - The Boston Globe
Dan Savage has plenty to say about soggy weekends' effects on the search for romance
000
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
When someone says they're not ready to get married, are they really saying, "I'm not ready to get married to YOU?" 🤔 Think it over with @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social.
trib.al
Not ready to get married? I don't buy it.
When someone says they're not ready to get married, are they really saying, "I'm not ready to get married to YOU?"
001
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Dear @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social: My husband, who works remotely, is annoyed when I get home. "When I get home, he is usually in a bad mood but the only reasoning I can get is that: 'work was stressful, 'I am tired' or 'it was a long day.'" — 💌 What can help?
trib.al
My husband, who works remotely, is annoyed when I get home
His husband is always annoyed. Does this relationship problem have anything to do with remote work? Does your spouse work from home?
001
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Want to help a soon-to-be newlywed? This letter writer asks: What changes after you get married? How does one be a good husband? Read @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social's advice for this future husband.
trib.al
How will things change after we get married?
Want to help a soon-to-be newlywed? This letter writer asks: What changes after you get married? How does one be a good husband?
001
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 28/05/2025
Prostate cancer is quite common, but many men don't talk about it. On the heels of Joe Biden’s diagnosis, Globe reporter Mark Shanahan explains in today's Starting Point why he made a podcast about his experience with the disease.
bostonglobe.com
Why I decided to make a podcast about getting treated for prostate cancer - The Boston Globe
Prostate cancer is absurdly common, but many men are mum about it. Joe Biden’s diagnosis has focused public attention.
1345
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’m still conclavin’ and I love Julian’s journey here: @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/n...
bostonglobe.com
My cousin*, the pope - The Boston Globe
I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?
000
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 21/05/2025
Globe journalism was never meant to be a permanent obstacle to someone’s success, with the worst decisions and moments in regular people’s lives accessible by a few keystrokes for the rest of time. Fresh Start aims to empower all people who want to start over.
Square shaped box with a dark gray background and white text with yellow bullet points. At the top of the square it says: What is Fresh Start?. The next row of text has a yellow bullet point and says: An initiative that allows all people to appeal their presence in older stories published on our site.. The bullet point that says: Cases are considered individually and, if warranted, steps will be taken to update the story and protect the privacy of the individual. The fourth bullet point says: These steps may include republishing the story with new information, or removing it from Google searches. And the final bullet point reads: All final decisions will ultimately come down to the Globe’s editorial discretion.
1618442
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Two 💌 letters. Two pleas for explanation. @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social helps two letter writers with seemingly simple questions. One of them being: What is "Disney Princess Energy" in dating? Read the letter: trib.al/IAgm0te
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of cinderella with a blue bird on her head
ALT: a cartoon of cinderella with a blue bird on her head
001
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
✨New Patreon Ep✨ @ianxcarlos.bsky.social, @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social, @lazmarquez.bsky.social + Mae talk Buffy s4's "Where the Wild Things Are" for the ep's 25th Sub to our Royalty tier + up to watch the video, Coven tier for audio only: www.patreon.com/posts/buffy-...
cover image for Buffy s4's "Where the Wild Things Are"collage of folks on our podcast for our recording on Buffy s4's "Where the Wild Things Are"
062
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Can a 🍄 trip save a marriage? Today’s Love Letters episode is the story of a married couple who were having major relationship troubles and found an answer in psilocybin. Hear their journey with @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social, wherever you listen to podcasts. 🎧 link.chtbl.com/zLLpSgsm
011
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
tiana woodard (she/her) @tianarochon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1/ the hyde square task force teens that unearthed pricing differences at two stop & shop locations in 2023 are rejoicing after prices at the two stores are now roughly equal. but they're pressing on, with hopes that more communities see similar prices. for @bostonglobe.com:
bostonglobe.com
‘A massive win’: After Stop & Shop lowers Jamaica Plain store prices, youth organizers rejoice - The Boston Globe
Members of the Hyde Square Task Force and the Massachusetts delegation are pressing for the corporation to drop prices in more low-income neighborhoods.
15619
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social, a continued When Harry met Sally rule messing with us all. Please help. www.boston.com/love-letters...
boston.com
My wife wants me to end a friendship
An outdated question, but it never goes away: can men and women be just friends? Meredith helps a letter writer whose wife is asking.
021
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Did not write this but into it, as a Boston and Lauren Cohan person @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/02/a...
bostonglobe.com
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’: Lauren Cohan talks turning the Bay State into a zombified Big Apple - The Boston Globe
The second season of AMC’s post-apocalyptic spinoff, premiering Sunday, filmed around the Boston area last year.
000
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
If anyone needs the Dayenu situation from the 1974 Passover Haggadah
000
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This reader is worried about how their girlfriend's wealthy father is going to impact their shared lifestyle. "There is one thing I am struggling with internally about her and it’s 'daddy’s money.'” Read @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social's response.
trib.al
Her dad pays for everything
This letter writer is dating a woman whose dad pays for everything. If you don't come from money, is it difficult to date someone who does?
001
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@lovelettersglobe.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/07/m...
bostonglobe.com
Authorities searching for owner of a wedding ring found in Somerset coin machine - The Boston Globe
A date is inscriped on the band.
021
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
One more time for people who might like it, a great episode about relationships and video games (like this one, which is gooood) pod.link/1354140820/e... @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com
One game we discuss, Dream Daddy. Which taught me plenty. This is art of the video game, which features illustrations of many hot single dads.
021
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I was near news and did news. The most Boston kind of news.
0307
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thinking about this a lot
000
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
On the Psych of Dream (Daddies)? I was interviewed by @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social for @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social on romance in games! We cover Uncharted & LoU to @gamegrumps.bsky.social’s Dream Daddy & our DTx game from @rittigers.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3TRw...
open.spotify.com
Lessons with Daddies
Love Letters · Episode
022
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
tuftsdaily.com
How does the Daily stay financially independent? - The Tufts Daily
In the spring of 1988, then-Tufts studentsJonathan Larsen (LA’88) andJulie Beglin (LA’89) set up a meeting with theTufts Community Union Senate, determined to achieve one objective: mak...
010
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social podcast episode is very good for having feelings and joy and growth … while doing commutes and folding laundry. I hope you listen. pod.link/1354140820/e...
The Love Letters podcast. The latest episode is called “Ready Player One.”
133
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Accompanying this investigative series is a podcast examining how the shadowy world of police informants enables misconduct to fester. This is ‘Snitch City.’ Subscribe to get it in your inbox or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
apps.bostonglobe.com
Spotlight | Snitch City: Investigation into police misuse of confidential informants
In a nation addicted to drugs, police are addicted to informants.
1107
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
wapo.st/3F7gjbC
wapo.st
Review | ‘Mickey 17’ sends in the clones in a devilish Bong Joon Ho satire
Robert Pattinson plays an off-world “Expendable” having a serious personality crisis.
001
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Mickey 17, which I loved, has something for the Buffy fans.
110
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A good day to read literally everything Ty has put out today.❤️ about all of the things.
120
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Please enjoy our new episode. It is escapism happy stuff. And pasta and books. That’s my best pitch: Spaghetti and memoirs and novels. And personal growth. And a lovely guy at a winery showing me pictures of his family. @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com pod.link/1354140820/e...
pod.link
Love Letters
Love stories. Dating stories. Relationship stories. Stories about romance, marriage, partnership, sex, loss, and the human heart. Served with a side of advice. Hosted by Boston Globe advice columnist ...
121
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Ian Prasad Philbrick @ianprasad.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Love is in the air, so I called up @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social, who writes the Globe's @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social relationship advice column. Today’s Starting Point features our Q&A about how the questions readers ask her have changed www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/n...
bostonglobe.com
A Valentine’s Q&A with Meredith Goldstein - The Boston Globe
The Globe’s Love Letters columnist on how reader questions have changed and the value of bad advice.
002
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Is your brain stopping you from change? 🧠 To find out @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social went to an expert – Steven E. Hyman, Director of the Program in Brain Health at the @broadinstitute.org. Brains are weird. Find out how they can work for us and our relationships. Listen: link.chtbl.com/zLLpSgsm.
012
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This letter writer is trying to get over an epic love – that was also an epic affair. How do you let go of someone who was never yours? Read @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social's Love Letters. trib.al/vAnyzDH
trib.al
Finding closure after an affair
This letter writer is trying to get over an epic love – that was also an epic affair. How do you let go of someone who was never yours?
001
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If you’re asking, yes we’ll be your valentine, @npr.org. 💌❤️ Hear @bostonglobe.com's Love Letters, hosted by @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social, in the ‘Be Mine’ playlist on the NPR One app now.
one.npr.org
🔊 Listen Now: My Clown Era
Love Letters from Public Radio Exchange -- PRX on NPR One | 48:11
001
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This letter writer wonders about finding love again. How do you allow your soul to let another partner into your life after a healing journey? Read @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social's advice on @boston.com.
trib.al
Dating after cancer and a breakup
After a bad relationship and a cancer journey, this letter writer wonders about finding love again. How can she be open to new relationships?
011
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As we're nearing the 5th anniversary of the COVID lockdown, @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social wants to know how your relationships changed because of the pandemic, and what you saw in your communities. Plus, what *you'd like* to know about it. Respond here.
trib.al
How did COVID change your relationships?
In this week's Love Letters newsletter: Post-COVID relationship changes, behind-the-scenes videos, navigating conversation interruptors, and more.
111
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thank you @spotifypodcasts.bsky.social. Next to Charlotte and all. @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social. @bostonglobe.com To listen: link.chtbl.com/j9JypB6y
042
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I’m having trouble finding all the lovely people I followed elsewhere, but I just searched “Patti LuPone” and that weirdly (or not weirdly) helped bring up accounts I like. But also: how do I find the people.
010
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Today, @boston.com and @bostonglobe.com's advice column Love Letters, turns 16 years old. 💌 🎂 Advice columnist @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social says: To those who’ve read for years or listened to the podcast – and to new faces – thank you. Here's the first letter from 2009: trib.al/FWSz5Jw
 Love Letters, the daily relationship advice column, turns 16 years old today.
The first person to submit a Love Letter was ‘Desperate in Rockland’ who asked for help dating a shy man.

“He won’t even show me his feet.”
111
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I touch on it in the piece (gift link), but Lynch was the first director I ever interviewed, back in '78, and it was a sweet hot mess. I was a way-too-earnest film undergrad and he was a neophyte director, and this might have been one of his first interviews, but I kept asking him these dumb 1/x
wapo.st
Guest column | David Lynch, the visionary of America’s subconscious
Lynch was a singular auteur whose films found poetry in the ugly underbelly of American life.
322440
Reposted by Meredith Goldstein
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Miss this is INAPPROPRIATE Yeah, Odysseus just landed on Circe’s island and my fourth period class is *scandalized*
1111
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Please👂🎧 to the new season of the @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social podcast, which attempts to answer the question: Can people change? In the season premiere (new!), Funmi, our guest, shares a tale about how she changed for the better … by becoming … a clown. link.chtbl.com/j9JypB6y @bostonglobe.com
011
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
That we continue to have stories about book stories opening instead of closing @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/04/a...
bostonglobe.com
Boston’s poet laureate opens ‘first of its kind’ independent bookstore in Dorchester - The Boston Globe
‘People do rest as a political act, but I’m arguing for leisure and fun and joy as a kind of political act,’ says bookshop cofounder Porsha Olayiwola.
031
Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
No wonderful time to be dumped. Maybe Leap Day. But that’s it.
021