Buildings were more visually appealing when they were round, like fruit, Mr. Fowler maintained. In his 1848 book, “The Octagon House: A Home for All,” he wrote: “The more acute the angle, the less beautiful; but the more the angle approaches the circle, the more beautiful.” Because round houses were expensive to build, Mr. Fowler…
“They all think it’s hilarious,” Mr. Getz said. “But they know that only I would wear this cheap, knockoff watch with my own face on it as a cartoon — and pretend to be proud of it.” Fun watches, after all, are rooted in self-expression. The Washington, D.C.-based watch collector Abduljabar Totonji bought his Joker…
Shatzi Weisberger spent years urging others to approach the process of dying with joy and wonder. Then she got cancer.
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For Cherie Rochelle King and Ilka Tiedemann, it proved true that the third time’s a charm. First, they saw each other. Second, they met each other. Third, they agreed to a date. The two first crossed paths on Nov. 19, 2016 at a women’s dance after the Perth Pride Parade in Australia. “We only saw…
In July 2013, Emily Erin Todebush wrote Garrett Odhiambo Arwa an email pretending they knew each other. “I said, ‘Hey, you might not remember me, but we worked together on the Obama campaign,’” she said. She hadn’t completely made it up: In August 2012, Ms. Todebush, then a volunteer field organizer for Mr. Obama’s presidential…
Our relationship was impossible, which of course is what made it possible.
Isabel Spooner-Harvey used to make latkes from scratch: grating the potatoes, wringing out their water, frying them over a hot stove. The effort was gratifying. But then she had three children in three years, followed by a separation from her husband. For the stay-at-home mother in Madison, Wis., the need to make the holidays special…
Though Ms. Love was ready to leave the modeling industry then, it took her another three years to do so, and Mr. Platt’s support proved crucial. “My whole life has been about how I look, and he sees past that,” Ms. Love said. Ms. Love was born in Tarrytown, N.Y., and moved to Miami when…
Still, the two spent the next summer together and continued to casually date. They broke up when she left for school — Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from which she graduated cum laude, with a degree in communications. [Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] In 2017, during Easter break, they ran into…