I drove my big blue boat of an Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera — a hand-me-down from Grandma Betty — along the winding road to Matt Erickson’s house in Lakefield, the town next to Jackson, where I lived and couldn’t wait to leave. It was the dog days of August. The heat made my legs stick to…
We’ll get this out of the way: You absolutely don’t need to fry tortillas from scratch for Rick Martínez’s tostadas recipe. Topped with seasoned beans, crumbles of chorizo, cheese, lettuce, cilantro and salsa, any store-bought fried tortilla will taste delicious. But if you would like to fry your own, Rick has helpful tips on how…
The 49-year-old woman knew as soon as she got out of bed that something was very wrong. A quick survey of her body revealed the source: Sprinkled around her bellybutton were a half dozen blisters. They were small — the largest maybe the size of a pencil eraser — and painful. They looked like the…
“There are so many people here that I love,” Mr. Lee said, highlighting two in particular, Bill “Dollar Bill” Bradley, the former U.S. senator and New York Knicks player, and Tonya Lewis Lee, the producer and Mr. Lee’s wife. They had celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary the day before. “Two great days in a row,”…
A new study has an encouraging message for Americans who shy away from Covid shots because of worries about side effects: The chills, fatigue, headache and malaise that can follow vaccination may be signs of a vigorous immune response. People who had those side effects after the second dose of a Covid vaccine had more…
Según los médicos, no es habitual que una mujer presente un cuadro psicótico por primera vez a los 50 años. Más raro aún, es que yo no tenía antecedentes familiares de enfermedades mentales graves. Llevaba tres años divorciada, viviendo en una ciudad pequeña y frondosa de Nueva Jersey, cuando miré por la ventana de la…
Felipe Gallegos used to work in fashion, designing store displays for Abercrombie & Fitch and Uniqlo. Now he spends his days with plants, helping them thrive in office buildings across New York City. On a recent morning, Mr. Gallegos and eight of his fellow plant keepers from Greenery NYC, which designs plant installations and maintains…
Married people don’t always wear wedding bands or engagement rings — at least not their original ones. The longest stretch of time that Mike Wirs wore his tungsten wedding band was in 2019, on his wedding day and during the weeklong honeymoon afterward. Since then, he has been sticking with the silicone rings that he…