How to Double Your Kids in One Minute

Aliza Aber and Jonathan Browning had a marathon of a first date. After connecting on OkCupid in March 2017, they met in the afternoon at San Francisco’s de Young museum, shared an Italian dinner and then played miniature golf at an indoor course, Urban Putt. Things couldn’t have been going any better, until Mr. Browning…

Weddings: When Yankee Fans Fall in Love

Christopher McGuire was back in his native New York in October 2017, and, much like his hometown Yankees, bracing for a Game 7 showdown with the visiting Houston Astros. “I was living and working in Washington at that time,” said Mr. McGuire, 31, a foreign affairs officer at the State Department. “For years, I was…

Carving a Turkey and Becoming a Man

Deep into his 60s, my father’s biceps threatened to rip his shirt sleeves when he reached to scratch his head. For decades, he supported my mother, brother and me by killing cattle with a mallet in one of the slaughterhouses that gave Manhattan’s now-fashionable meatpacking district its name. For my ninth birthday in 1938, he…