In the modern age of dating, where your next suitor could be just a swipe away, some singles have grown tired of the revolving door of dates. In this week’s Modern Love essay, Gregory Walters, a writer living in Vancouver, decided to take a more carefree approach. He suspended his accounts on traditional dating apps…
Cheryl Berman-Schechter, 50, has been going to Montauk, the hamlet on the eastern tip of Long Island, since the early 1990s. Back then it was a fishing village, with a mix of middle- and working-class residents. She and her husband, Matthew Schechter, bought property there in 2008. When Ms. Berman chooses tenants, she hopes to…
International travel had been a major part of Paul Brinkman’s life for years. Mr. Brinkman, 47, his wife and their four children spent months meandering through Europe, flew to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria with relief supplies, and, this past February went to Kenya and Tanzania. While away from home, the family would frequently stay…
On the day of Kate Armitage and Eric de Grandmont’s wedding, she trimmed his unruly eyebrows in the bathroom. Later, he buckled the glittery straps of her chunky-heel sandals while they sat together on the couch. The couple exchanged playful banter while getting ready as if they had shared a home for years, but they…
In early March, when coronavirus testing was still scarce, Maggie Flannery, a Manhattan sixth-grader, and both her parents fell ill with the symptoms of Covid-19. After three weeks, her parents recovered. Maggie also seemed to get better, but only briefly before suffering a relapse that left her debilitated. “It felt like an elephant sitting on…
As leaves change and temperatures plummet, some TikTok teens have left behind carefree summer content for autumnal meditations on memory and mortality. Hundreds of users have posted videos about listening to “Everywhere at the End of Time,” a harrowing six-and-a-half-hour ambient composition by the Caretaker, an alias of the British experimental musician Leyland James Kirby.…
If you are a crust person, you will love a galette. Unlike most pies with their deep reservoirs of filling, galettes are flat as saucers. Their buttery pastry holds a just a shallow layer of whatever you put on top, whether it’s sliced summer fruit, slivered vegetables, or — in this autumnal example — a…
William Quinn Briganti was already on the plane home to New York when he and Dr. Thomas Strother Edwards started messaging each other. They had matched on Tinder in April 2016, while Mr. Briganti was in New Orleans to take part in a remote bell ceremony for Nasdaq. Dr. Edwards was finishing up medical school…
Sugar Good, the manager of the Dunkin’ donuts store in Edmond, Okla., didn’t know much about the customer in the red truck other than that he was pleasant and consistent. Each weekday morning at 7:15, he idled at the drive-through window while she handed off his sausage, egg and cheese croissant and a large hot…
Universal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, in the United States through next spring, scientists reported on Friday. The findings follow an assertion by Dr. Scott W. Atlas, the president’s science adviser, that masks are ineffective, in a tweet later taken down by Twitter for spreading…