“I would like to have lived longer, worked longer,” Sister Mary Andrew Matesich, a Catholic nun, told me in 2004. But, she said, “It’s not the hand I’ve been dealt.” She had breast cancer that had spread, and she had volunteered for experimental treatments, knowing they would probably not save her but hoping the research…
Avidale Balanzat, who goes by Avi, quickly arranged a building tour, asking the leasing agent to show her a unit facing the inner courtyard, not so she could see the swimming pool, but so she could have an apartment where she could see her sisters. “I wanted to see everyone from the balcony,” she said.…
In December 2015, Amanda Winer went on a 10-day Birthright Israel trip as a participant researcher. Her focus, as preliminary research for her dissertation, was relationships and social habits of Jewish millennials. Finding a mate was last on her list, especially since she had been dating someone for the past six months. Yet when she…
Katherine Clark Harris and Abhishek Gupta were driving back from the Napa Valley region of California — where they had spent their first Valentine’s Day together — to Mr. Gupta’s San Francisco home in 2018. Ms. Harris, 32, a native New Yorker then living in Washington, was navigating the hourlong return trip when they suddenly…
Patrick David Davies-Griffith and Jonathan Edward Eifert had it with their local dating scenes in 2017 — Mr. Eifert in Philadelphia and Mr. Davies-Griffith in New York — so each extended his dating radius to the 100-mile limit on the Bumble app. “Hey man, Handsome pix and nice to see we matched,” said Mr. Eifert,…
Ms. Franechivich, who graduated from the University of New Orleans and has lived most of her life in the city, said she realized Mr. Swistel was special within a few weeks of that first date. “We were at this bar, the Half Moon, and I remember this one moment where I was like, I really,…
The first time Diana Martin saw Hector Garcia was in 1985 through a window from her family home in Pereira, Colombia, where she spotted a boy she didn’t recognize riding a bike in front of their house. She was 11 and had heard from friends that a teenage artist who lived several streets away painted…
Daniel Paul Shear stopped at a red light in North Hollywood, Calif., in 2017 long enough to snap a photo of the Idle Hour bar, a building in the shape of a whiskey barrel, to send to Nora Charlotte Tillmanns. “I’m a native Angelino and I love fun design,” said Ms. Tillmanns, 32, who got…
When the coronavirus pandemic began, the Elgorts — the photographer Arthur; his wife, Grethe Barrett Holby; their daughter, Sophie, with her husband and their 3-year-old daughter; and their sons, Warren and Ansel — hunkered down together in their family home of 40 years on Long Island. To pass the time, Sophie, who is 35 and…
A father worries that his favorite children’s books promise his daughter a vibrant natural world that will no longer exist.