We have been invited to the fanciest house I can imagine for a holiday party (OK, the White House). My husband expects to wear a suit, with perhaps a holiday tie. A simple black or navy dress is my usual go-to, but that feels too basic and business-y; on the other hand, I also don’t…
On Dec. 19, 2019, I led my last Clemson, S.C., Christmas Bird Count. For almost 30 years, I’d been the compiler, the person responsible for organizing dozens of volunteer birders to count every species encountered across a 15-mile-diameter circle. The event, which merges my passion for birding with my profession as an ornithologist, is a…
A flurry of galas capped off the year. Creative Time held its first gala in three years on Dec. 7 at Powerhouse Arts, a former power station along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn that has been transformed into a nonprofit arts space. Guests, many dressed by Loewe, marveled at the sleek complex once known by…
Rica Allam, who lives in Stuttgart, Germany, loves celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, which begins tonight. There’s just one problem: It is very hard to find a menorah in her hometown. So she learned to make one herself. Ms. Allam, a university adviser and mother of two, is one of only about 118,000…
Newt Gingrich was not happy. It was the night of Dec. 6, minutes before the U.S. Senate race in Georgia was called for Raphael Warnock, and over on the Fox News show “Hannity,” the finger-pointing for Herschel Walker’s imminent loss had begun. One major culprit: TikTok. TikTok? The Chinese-owned social media platform, which hadn’t even…
You’ll never see Daniel Day — known as Dapper Dan among fashionistas — in sweatpants. “Today, I wanted to go get coffee, can’t even do that,” Mr. Day said. “Wherever people going to see me, I got to be dressed. That kills me, man.” His interest — or calling, some might argue — in always…
But if our collective LIFEMORTS are being activated, what exactly do we do with all this rage? If we don’t manage it, said Ms. Tawwab, who is the author of “Set Boundaries, Find Peace,” “it comes out as passive aggressiveness or temper tantrums.” “We’re frustrated,” Ms. Tawwab said. “We’ve been in the house. We’re mad…
While it would be great to be as calm as a Buddhist monk in everyday life, we all lose it on occasion. But just like favorite flavors of ice cream, the things that set us off vary from one person to the next. For some, it’s irritating tasks; for others, it’s irritating people. And of…
If there were such a thing as rage nostalgia, it would be the longing for a time when people fought out loud — even in a setting as formal as the office. They vented. They cursed. They rolled their eyes theatrically. Now workplace anger is quieter, often contained to the clack-clacking of a hastily typed…
Amarilli, mia bella, Non credi, o del mio cor dolce desio D’esser tu l’amor mio? And even after my soul-lifting, world-altering technologies flopped and the kitchens in my glass offices were no longer stocked with kombuchas and microgreens and microbrews, and none of my 15 remaining yes men had the energy for micromanaging or microblogging…