Making Meaning Out of Grief

It’s been nearly a decade since my husband died, but every detail of the day remains etched in my mind as if it were yesterday. I remember the call that came from the hospice facility at 2 a.m., then talking to the funeral parlor that was to retrieve his body and transfer it to the…

The Best Chili Recipe Is Yours

Good morning. Bay scallops come into season tomorrow, and if the harvest from Long Island doesn’t look promising on account of a warm-water die-off this summer, the baymen in Massachusetts seem hopeful, and their delicious little maritime gummy bears should show up in the cases of your fancier fishmongers sometime this week. Buy them if…

Natalie Minev, John Atallah

Natalie Ann-Marie Minev and John Joseph Atallah were married Nov. 2 at Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. The Rev. Mark Pritchett, a minister of the American Christian Trust, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Atallah, 33, is a staff lawyer in the housing and communities work group at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.…

Allison Wojteczko, Matthew Finan

Allison Miller Wojteczko and Matthew O’Brien Finan were married Nov. 2 in Larkspur, Colo. The Rev. Jeff Kane, a Presbyterian minister, at Spruce Mountain Ranch, an events space, performed the ceremony. The bride, 29, is a third-party risk management cybersecurity and privacy advisory consultant in San Francisco for PricewaterhouseCoopers, an auditing and tax services company…

Katina Zulakis, Joshua Harris

Katina Elizabeth Zulakis and Joshua Ekhause Harris were married Nov. 2 at the Milling Room, a restaurant in New York. Dr. Ehren Ekhause, a cousin of the groom who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The bride, 33 is a graphic designer with the Carpenter Group, a branding and marketing communications firm…