Then came their joint tattoo session, but not before their first kiss. “We were excited and giddy,” Ms. Thompson said. After that, Wednesdays became their regular date night at the Mean Eyed Cat. They also began to take the children on regular outings — to the splash pad in the park, on picnics or to…
If you want to think I’m a narcissist for assuming Millie’s Spotify playlists were about me, go ahead. In any case, they probably weren’t about you. Before Millie’s playlists, there was just Millie, the trombonist from Tinder I matched with in my first month of an ill-timed year abroad at Oxford University. It was September…
Ms. Feldman added that the couple has “grown very close to each other’s parents,” and that her mother and father, Susan Horowitz and Rick Feldman, have developed individual friendships with Mr. Esocoff’s parents “that exist independently from us.” Coming from a family of architects and being one himself, Mr. Esocoff said he at first “had…
Wanting to do something out of the ordinary, Mr. Grande proposed at Dreamscape, a virtual reality attraction in Los Angeles. He also wanted it to be a surprise. So he told Mr. Leon that the cluster of friends and family he had invited — who included Mr. Grande’s mother and sister and Mr. Leon’s aunt,…
Two months later, in March 2019, he demonstrated just how serious he was when Ms. Chatterjee’s father developed pneumonia. He died in Kolkata, India, where Ms. Chatterjee grew up, later that month. When she returned to the United States after grieving with family in India, being home alone was a struggle. “Sandeep mitigated my pain,”…
Cancer makes an odd building block in a relationship. But for Vera Golosker and Mark Rafael Gilfix it would become a keystone. The two, both lawyers, met in 2013 at a poolside fund-raiser in Los Angeles. A first date followed, which Mr. Golosker judged promising. A second date, though, lacked luster. Then, he said, “She…
Everett CollectionEverett A quick scroll through your TikTok feed and there’s a high chance you’ll stumble across someone who’s gone full coastal grandmother. The viral term, coined by TikToker Lex Nicoleta, describes the coastal grandmother aesthetic as, “If you love Nancy Meyers movies, coastal vibes, recipes and cooking, Ina Garten, cozy interiors, and more, there’s…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. What is balletcore? What does “gilded glamour,” the theme of the recent Met Gala, mean? Which menswear brands are sustainable? Is Lizzo’s new line of shapewear worth trying? These are all questions the TikTok-only fashion publication Rag Report is attempting to…
I am a senior at a private high school in New York City. My younger sister is in the ninth grade there. We are among very few Black students at school, and we’re both enrolled on scholarships. I heard recently, then saw for myself, that my sister is being bullied by a group of girls…
A dancer and Reiki energy healer in the Boston area, Wisty said they had herpes simplex, a common infection that in rare cases can cause serious inflammatory conditions. “I wanted to find something that makes it easier for me to enforce the boundaries that I wanted to,” Wisty said. “To be able to still play…