Pick up not only on people’s joys and delights but also on their burdens and aggravations, and think of gifts that might alleviate those things. If they complain about never having enough free time, steer clear of time-consuming gifts like jigsaw puzzles or 1,000-page books. Instead, think about time savers, such as a robot vacuum…
When it comes to luxury brand storytelling, Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella would be hard to beat. Founded in 1221 by Dominican friars in Florence, Italy, Santa Maria Novella (as it is commonly known) is a niche high-end beauty brand that has survived the plague known as Black Death, the Italian wars throughout the…
If you owned a DRT Tempus Fugit watch, you would be constantly reminded that you better start writing that novel, establish your business or make amends with a friend. Because the watch, named in Latin for the phrase “time flies,” displays an algorithm’s estimate of how much time the owner has left to live. Some…
Name: Brittani Nichols Age: 34 Hometown: Chicago Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles with her girlfriend and brother. Claim to Fame: Ms. Nichols is a screenwriter, actress and community organizer who is one of the writers of the critically acclaimed mockumentary “Abbott Elementary.” “Being part of a…
Tom let my sniping pass, one way we’ve learned to sustain our 25-year marriage. Another is making sacrifices: large ones like moving for a spouse’s job and small ones like doing a dirty chore to make a partner happy. But my anxiety remained. As I drove, Tom described a story he had read that morning…
For Samantha Loren Moray and Lanny Seth Grossman, love has always been in the unexpected details, from an after-date parking garage conversation to a “dine around” second date to a “walk down memory lane” proposal. The two matched on the Lox Club, a members-only app for Jewish singles, in February 2021. They exchanged messages and…
When Caroline Vazzana and David Lopes met on a double date, which they only agreed to as favors to friends, they couldn’t have imagined they would one day get married. The two met on Oct. 25, 2013, when Ms. Vazzana was a senior at Albright College in Reading, Pa. A friend of Ms. Vazzana’s had…
Society often tells us that it’s admirable to persist at all costs. But a new book by a professional poker player says sometimes you need to walk away.
David Roffe, 70, swirled pink wisps of sugar floss onto sticks, thrusting pink clouds of cotton candy into the hands of young, stylish partygoers. By day, Mr. Roffe, a stout, 5-foot-2-inch retiree, lives in the Rockaways. But last Thursday night, at the first Old Jewish Men Fall Ball, an intergenerational mixer held at Congregation Beth…
Bonnie Gross, a production coordinator from New York City, waited over six hours struggling with the Ticketmaster website. When she finally got the chance to purchase tickets, inventory was scarce. “I get to page where I can buy tickets and there are no seats available. There is one seat available,” Gross, 28, said. “It was…