Airlines make it easier to stick with the program Over the past 18 months, each airline has taken a different approach to hanging on to its biggest spenders, but their goal is the same: to make it easier for customers who have achieved status to keep it. Alaska Airlines, for example, is giving a 50…
Averi Harper and Kenneth Robinson, who met on a San Francisco train in September 2015, knew they might be destined for a future together when they realized their schedules had something in common: neither worked on Mondays or Tuesdays. “When we first started dating, we had unconventional schedules, we were both working long, odd hours,”…
Gil Moshe Gentile got it just right in June 2013 when he asked Hannah Marie Mandel to meet him at “Jack Goldstein X 10,000,” a conceptual art exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. “He was an artist I really loved,” Mr. Gentile said. “It was her vibe, too.” When he had reached out to…
When Julia Tishman gave Adam Elias her business card at a September 2017 networking event that doubled as a mutual friend’s birthday, she at first was unsure what to make of his follow-up email. “I remember chuckling at his first email to me on my official House email,” Ms. Tishman said. At the time, she…
As they observed the canals, Ms. Mungiguerra said she saw Mr. Chan remove something from his pocket and finally realized what was happening. The surprise overseas proposal was no simple task, Mr. Chan said. “I wrote a note and tied it to the ring box for T.S.A. because I had heard sometimes it comes up…
Douglas Atkins and Charles Huck say their love for each other comes from finding the fun in everything. “Whether that’s playing board games, walking the dogs around a new path, or trying a new restaurant or concert, we always keep the surprises coming and make sure we are having a great time,” Mr. Huck said.…
Adam Samuel Eaker was looking forward to an evening of music the night he met Brandon Patrick George in March 2019. Falling for the musician, though, was not meant to be part of the program. Dr. Eaker, an associate curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, had previously spent…
As an expectant dad with cerebral palsy I tried to prepare, but a delivery emergency gave me a crash course.
On their first date, at a New York restaurant in late February 2020, Jessica Rosenblum told Steve Young that he looked like a lot more fun in his photo, which was provided by an acquaintance who had set them up. He laughed, delighted by her “cutting” sense of humor. “I thought it was hilarious,” he…
“I was very attracted to her,” he said, and vice versa. That weekend, he invited her to a friend’s barbecue. The next day, they went running in Prospect Park. By Thanksgiving, she found out they were an official couple when they ran into one of Mr. Breland’s co-workers at a movie theater in Queens. The…