How to Make End-of-Life Planning Less Stressful
One tip: Do it over chocolate cake.
One tip: Do it over chocolate cake.
As a child, Josh Patner became accustomed to stepping over his mom, who used to lie down in the kitchen whenever her mother-in-law would call. “My grandmother would talk her ear off,” Mr. Patner, 61, recalled. To cope, his mother would “lie on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.” Mr. Patner’s…
Monique Forster, 25, an author of the recently published primer, “Learn the 1-2-3s of High Fashion,” likes to claim that the book and its companion volume, “Learn the ABCs of High Fashion,” are aimed at toddlers, preschoolers and overreaching parents who may cherish a hope that their little ones will learn numbers by counting Hermès…
Bonnie McIlvaine has lived in three homes in San Diego County, all on the very same spot. The first was an unheated concrete-block house she bought in 1973 for $32,000. A newly divorced schoolteacher, Ms. McIlvaine wanted a break from urban living. She found herself in a small, hilly town with stretches of undeveloped brushland…
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A finales de enero, una amiga me envió un correo electrónico para avisarme que su experta en cejas favorita iba a hacer una residencia en el norte de la ciudad, no muy lejos de donde yo vivía. Me reí. “No tengo cejas”, respondí. “¡Pertenezco a la gran generación de las cejas desaparecidas de Carolyn Bessette!”.…
¿Cuál es el siguiente paso en la carrera de Monica Lewinsky, la exbecaria de la Casa Blanca convertida en activista contra el acoso escolar, escritora y productora? Modelar. Lewinsky es la estrella de una nueva campaña que la marca de moda Reformation presentó la semana pasada. La campaña, intitulada “You’ve Got the Power” (El poder…
A month after Andrew proposed to me, he and I went to couples counseling, where, in our first session, he said, “If I have to choose between you and the Army, I choose the Army.” His words knocked the air out of my chest. Five years earlier, on our first date, he had said (after…
Christopher Joseph Marazzo did the unthinkable one Friday evening in October 2019. He left his bowl of pasta unfinished, and walked over to Rose Angelina Teresa Minutaglio’s booth in the back room at Forlini’s Italian restaurant in Lower Manhattan. “She has this old world beauty, like a black-and-white photo,” said Mr. Marazzo, who turns 33…