With the New York charity circuit still on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources. Sandra Bernhard Age: 65 Occupation: performer, actress, radio host Favorite charity: Up2Us Where have you been during this whole thing? Last summer my girlfriend, Sarah, and I were in Vermont, the Hudson…
Amy Katherine Larko and Blake Falanga, best friends since seventh grade, made a pact in 2011, the beginning of senior year at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. If neither was seeing anyone seriously they would go to the senior prom together. “I met a girl today,” Mr. Falanga told his mother four years…
Two friends and a sea monster brought Caitlin Kiernan and Kenny Kaplan together. These were not your average friends, nor sea monster. The creature came courtesy of a 1970s children’s TV show about two boys and their briny buddy. The friends were a little more current. The couple’s story starts in 2014, two years after…
Deborah Breisblatt and Jeremy Lizt met on the Jewish dating app JSwipe in January 2020, when pandemic pods were not yet a thing. They went on dates, 11 to be exact. And then the coronavirus surfaced, and along with it, a shelter-in-place order. Mr. Lizt suggested that Ms. Breisblatt move in with him. “Either we’ll…
From there, they built a platonic relationship that lasted for a few years. They privately knew that some romantic feelings remained, but they ignored them for the sake of preserving the friendship. They didn’t speak much about their past romance. A turning point came in 2017. On the day of the presidential inauguration of Donald…
Alexandra Ossa and Alexander Wong went on their first trip as a couple in January 2017 on a drive to the mountains of Asheville, N.C. At some point on that trip, the love connection between Ms. Ossa, 31, and Mr. Wong, 35, temporarily short-circuited. “I threw out the L word and didn’t get one back,”…
Emorie Broemel, a senior director of government relations at ViacomCBS, never imagined she would meet her future husband at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. As a Democrat, it was one of the last places she expected to find love. “I joke that it’s my secret shame,” she said. She was also too consumed…
As American companies prepare to bring large numbers of workers back to the office in the coming months, executives are facing one of their most delicate pandemic-related decisions: Should they require employees to be vaccinated? Take the case of United Airlines. In January, the chief executive, Scott Kirby, indicated at a company town hall that…
When I see my mother on the screen holding her hot-pink, one-pound dumbbells, I start playing “Circle of Life” by the singer she calls “Elton Johns.” We begin with shoulder rolls followed by arm circles, basic side steps and — her favorite — forward punches. She’s wearing my brother’s cycling windbreaker from his college days…
The Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) and the Colorado Consortium on Climate Change and Human Health have launched the Climate, Work & Health Initiative (CWHI). CWHI is an interdisciplinary team of expert researchers, scientists, doctors, and public health professionals dedicated to combating the effects of climate…