I’ve been writing about wine long enough to have made my share of misjudgments over the years. One was to overemphasize the notion of seasonal drinking, the idea that we gravitate naturally to whites and rosés in the summer and reds in the winter. I’ve learned with experience that I pretty much enjoy the same…
I was born into an angry world. My first lessons as a child involved understanding and avoiding the invisible triggers that permeated our home. My mother was often angry at my father. My brother, upset about our parents’ separation — and by my presence, after he’d been an only child for six years — was…
Kanako Abe noticed a cute guy with “mysterious, deep-set eyes” on an Amtrak train headed from New York City to Montreal in March 2012. John Christopher Seemer took note of Ms. Abe, too. But neither spoke a word to the other — that is, until their return trip six days later, on March 17, 2012.…
On a July morning in 2022, Shira Avia Zilberstein had a bone scan, a routine test when dealing with Crohn’s colitis, a disease in which the colon is inflamed. Afterward, she and her boyfriend of nearly a year, Emmanuel Altmann Cantor, swam in the Mystic Lakes, in Boston’s northwestern suburbs. Later that night, they went…
Edgar Giovanny Angel and Dianna Guadalupe Mateos can’t quite remember if they danced to a merengue or a cumbia song when, as 15-year-olds, they were paired as dance partners for a quinceañera in 2012. They do, however, remember hitting it off during rehearsals. “Edgar’s cousin was my best friend during high school,” said Ms. Mateos,…
Tyler Charles Eyre believes he never would have met Yasmin Khorram, whom he considers his soul mate, had her family not fled Iran four decades ago. But it was a tragic turn of events that precipitated that move. As the Iranian Revolution was taking place in 1979, Ms. Khorram’s maternal grandfather, a top military commander…