Even during a normal year, Jacqueline Kim, a stay-at-home mother of two in Encinitas, Calif., is pretty bullish about making travel plans to national parks. She researches trails and sites, and logs on to the websites right when reservations open up. “Six months ahead, I book it, because I know exactly where I want to…
The 61 percent match rate for international students may understate the problem, some experts say, because it does not account for medical students who receive no interview offers. With those students included, the match rate for international medical students may drop as low as 50 percent. Residency program directors said that in recent years they…
Next to Goop’s vaginal jade egg and a candle called “This Smells Like My Vagina,” a vibrator seems almost, well, old-fashioned. But that did not stop fans of Gwyneth Paltrow’s often-mocked wellness company, Goop, from snapping up its new, double-sided wand vibrator, which looks like a candy-colored gelato cone. In an interview Tuesday, Ms. Paltrow…
For Sarah Elizabeth Williams Gelfand and Scott David Schilson Jr., the intense atmosphere and demanding coursework of the N.Y.U. masters of laws in taxation program — intended for lawyers who wish to deepen their knowledge in that particularly abstruse area of jurisprudence — weren’t impediments to falling in love. “It’s maybe not the most romantic…
Ms. Brown and Mr. Powell met with Melanie Benware, a local trainer and the president of the International Association of Canine Professionals. “People are going out less,” Ms. Benware said, “therefore their dogs are not being exposed to as many people, dogs, sights and sounds.” She taught the couple how to train Hopper to respond…
Stephanie Goodman was in her early teens when she declared, “I’m going to marry Mark Clifford someday.” Her friend and teammate Whitney Braswell remembers it well. “We were in middle school and Mark was this cool, older, college guy, and she was totally in love with him,” Ms. Braswell said. Spoiler alert: Ms. Goodman knew…
My father protects for a living, but he is invisible by design. For more than two decades, he watched the halls of a shopping plaza in Koreatown in Los Angeles as a security guard. Three stories of salmon-colored walls with a signature glass skylight, the plaza is a community landmark for Korean immigrants who weathered…
Name: Caitlin Stasey Age: 30 Hometown: Melbourne, Australia Now lives: In a two-bedroom, 1950s ranch-style house on the east side of Los Angeles. Claim to fame: Ms. Stasey is an actress, writer and director who stars in the new Epix series “Bridge and Tunnel,” a dramedy set on Long Island in the 1980s. She plays…
For his first date with Anessah Taheerah Cabiness, in January 2019, Robert Eugene Williams III picked a scenic restaurant in Edgewater, N.J., on the bank of the Hudson River. Ms. Cabiness and Mr. Williams had been texting since matching on the dating app Bumble about a week and a half earlier, and Mr. Williams was…
Their first outing together was in Harlem, where they went to a concert at the home of Marjorie Eliot, who has hosted jazz concerts in her Harlem apartment for decades. Ms. Keshwani and Mr. Navodia had also discussed plans to go out dancing together — Ms. Keshwani wanted to learn the fox trot; Mr. Navodia,…