Matt Tracy, 45, a shoe distributor based in Portland, Maine, loves to cook. On a recent multigenerational trip to Tuscany, he and other family members cooked seven out of 10 nights in a rental villa, preparing dishes like wild boar ragù for 10 people, including his children, 6 and 9. “We save a tremendous…
For starters: Don’t spray sunscreen like perfume.
When David Dulin celebrated his 36th birthday in March, he asked his Twitter followers for just two things: cash donations to his online payment account, and pictures of them in their own birthday suits. “It started as a joke, but it’s just become something that we run with,” said Mr. Dulin, a retail worker in…
In 2016, he rented a place down the street. They still live apart a few days a week — Ms. Winter is often in the cottage, and Mr. Anderson lives primarily near Round Top, where he bought a 20-acre horse farm in 2017. “The LAT scenario is a dreamy system that offers us flexibility,” Ms.…
The first time Maria Anita Antonaccio and Harry Douglas Gural met — at lunch on Easter Sunday in 2018 — they weren’t focused on each other. They were visiting their mothers at a senior living community in Lewisburg, Pa. Mr. Gural, 63, had driven four hours from Washington, where he was working as a senior…
I once imagined how the conversation would go. Me: “Hey Mom, I’m gay. Like Ellen. You know on TV. Her kind of gay.” Her: “Ellen can be gay. You can’t.” My mother loved me so much, but as an undocumented Black woman already facing so many hurdles, she didn’t want her child to check off…
Aria Aber and Noah Robert Warren, both poets and published authors, were familiar with each other’s work and had connected on social media long before they met in person. Their first substantive interaction was virtual. In late 2020, Mr. Warren had invited Ms. Aber, a writing fellow at Stanford, to share her work for a…
After being together for four and a half years, Eva Jamila McKend and Dennis Roane Bates Jr. knew that marriage was the next step. “Does anyone really know when it’s time to get married?” said Ms. McKend, 34, a national politics reporter at CNN. She added that for them, “it just felt right.” Mr. Bates…
The News Binge drinking among adults aged 35 to 50 occurred at record prevalence in 2022, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health. A new study found that nearly 30 percent of people in this age group reported binge drinking in 2022, continuing a consistent upward trend in the behavior. In 2012,…
There are cheaper and more effective ways to salvage your eyes from all that screen time.