“I think our landlord is like, ‘What are you guys doing?’” said Cassidy Tucker, sitting alongside her sister Kelsey on a Zoom call from their Detroit studio last week. Surrounding them was a pileup of 50 pieces of original artwork, with several 8-foot-by-4-foot mural-like sculptures meant to approximate the pages of a giant storybook. The…
Do You Know Where Your Donation Is Going? Most people who donate old clothes assume their garments’ final destination is the racks of Goodwill and Salvation Army, where they might find a second life. However, according to Adam Minter, the author of “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale,” thrift stores are often just…
My father is retired and lives outside the country. He bought a house here with my brother; it’s in both of their names and mostly paid off. Because my brother has never been able to support himself, though, the house has fallen into disrepair. Now, my father is coming home temporarily for cancer treatment and…
The 67-year-old man dropped heavily into the plastic chair inside the Alta Mountain resort in Utah. It was his third day skiing the Rockies but his first at Alta. He had been excited to try these new slopes, but his run that morning was brutal. It was a clear, cold day, and the sharp mountain…
To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, 46, said, “do they have any meaning?” They do, it seems, when displayed alongside hundreds of forgotten snapshots collected from other art students from the grunge…
High-tech vacuums and robotic mops are having their moment in a pandemic that has contributed to never-ending messes at home.
Sandra Di Carlo Valdez looked at her Christmas tree in January and felt a wave of sadness. One week into 2022 and nearly two years into a pandemic, the tree was a source of joy; she wasn’t ready to take it down. So Ms. Valdez, 46, a nail technician and blogger in Miami with nearly…
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The photographs of trashed flowers still haunt florists. In 2020, when much of the world went into lockdown because of the pandemic, many flower farms’ crops were discarded. Since no one knew what was going to happen, new crops were not planted as usual. Now, because of pandemic-related supply chain challenges, labor shortages and poor…
The key to staying active long term may be to care less about how you look and more about how you feel.