Must Love Dogs, and Skiing

After several well-meaning nudges from her mother, Mollie Ann Finkel signed up for Tawkify, a matchmaking service, in January 2021. She was tired of the dating apps. Ms. Finkel, 44, selected the three-date package and left it up to her matchmaker to come up with someone who first and foremost loved dogs and skiing. Her…

Vegetarian Snacks for Diwali and Beyond

The best Diwalis I can remember involved days of epic, back-to-back parties: endless sweets in my aunties’ living rooms; dancing in hot, scratchy new outfits; and cousins racing down the squeaky floors of community-center halls with paper plates stacked high with snacks. These days, it’s less of a production: I light some candles around the…