When Ja’Kobi Moore decided to apply this year to a private high school in her hometown of New Orleans, she learned that she needed at least one letter of recommendation from a teacher. She had never asked for one, so she sought help. “Teacher letter of recommendation,” she typed into TikTok’s search bar. Ms. Moore,…
If you see a young person strolling down the street, pants undone, it’s probably not an “examine your zipper” situation. Once the provenance of your uncle after Thanksgiving dinner or a practical adaptation to a pregnant belly, sporting unbuttoned jeans has become a fashion statement. Katie Pettit, 20, a model from Orlando, Fla., was visiting…
Will I get my passport quicker by using the online option? Currently, processing times for online renewal remain the same as those sent via snail mail. But while there’s no guarantee that online renewal will shorten wait times, it will cut down on paperwork and streamline the process, both for applicants and State Department officials,…
Los expertos dicen que las investigaciones al respecto son pocas. Pero hay indicios del modo en que podría ayudarte a conciliar el sueño.
Fashion is no place for people without a stomach for contradiction. Consider the gorgeous, if occasionally lugubrious, Willy Chavarria show on Tuesday in Manhattan at Marble Collegiate Church, home pulpit of President Richard M. Nixon’s favorite clergyman, Norman Vincent Peale, the self-help pundit who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking.” Exalting and hokey, exhortatory as…
On Dec. 23, 2021, Emily Thompson handed her grandmother’s solitaire diamond to a jeweler to have it incorporated into her wedding band. She and her fiancé, Stefan Kienle, had planned to marry in eight months. One week later, on Dec. 30, the Marshall fire ripped through their town, Louisville, Colo., and the neighboring town, Superior,…
I’d like to blame those minimal skills on an inability to read a cookbook, but I was fully sighted back then, afflicted only with an aversion to domestic tasks. Serious cooking felt like yet another tedious married-with-children chore, right up there with emptying the dishwasher, grocery shopping, making a bed and vacuuming. Invariably, this affliction…
Despite taking train, plane and bus rides to see one another, they split in 2015. The two never entirely lost touch, though, and by 2016, they had gotten back together with the plan to live in the same city. Two years later, in 2018, Mr. Evans relocated to the Bay Area for a job at…
“Hello, my dove,” Terence Lee said as he was introduced to Cecelia Claire Thornton-Alson at the wedding rehearsal dinner for their mutual friends, in October 2017. His riff on the line “O my dove,” from the “Song of Songs,” was hokey enough to put her at ease before their first run-through of the biblical text,…
We may be more susceptible to the virus than we have been in recent years, but doctors have tips to stay healthy.