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…
Cindy Sandjo, a 29-year-old content creator who works in I.T. and lives in Dallas, was initially interested in joining a running club because she was in search of other Black people she could connect with. She joined her first run at the end of May and immediately began posting videos about her newfound interest on…
Patients using Done or similar telehealth platforms may experience disruptions in care, health officials warned.
Today’s Challenge: Take an emotional risk.
Many firearm owners in the United States do not securely store their guns, even when the weapon is kept loaded and there are children in the home, according to a report released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which relied on data from 2021 and 2022 from eight states,…
One of the biggest bangs heard in the history of wine, on a May evening in 1976, caused barely a ripple in the home of Warren and Barbara Winiarski, the proprietors of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa Valley. The day before, a 1973 Stag’s Leap cabernet sauvignon had won a tasting in Paris that…