Many Americans prefer to believe the Covid pandemic is a thing of the past. But for the nation’s nursing homes, the effects have yet to fully fade, with staffing shortages and employee burnout still at crisis levels and many facilities struggling to stay afloat, according to a new report published Thursday by federal investigators. The…
Video dinner parties, spa days, stuffed animals, favorite hoodies and cozy, colorful fleece blankets. Cole Brauer’s Instagram feed hardly feels like the work of someone racing a 40-foot sailboat around the world in the Global Solo Challenge. But Ms. Brauer, 29, is not an average ocean racer. In 2022, Ms. Brauer had tried out for…
This self-guided check-in will help you take stock of your emotional well-being — and learn how to make changes.
The Hawaii-born artist Toshiko Takaezu was known for her ceramic works that redefined the genre with their “closed forms,” as she called them — sealed vessels whose hidden interior spaces were meant to activate the imagination. Next month, Takaezu’s life and work will be the focus of a major retrospective at the Noguchi Museum in…
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What is the meaning of a cat’s meow that grows louder and louder? Or your pet’s sudden flip from softly purring as you stroke its back to biting your hand? It turns out these misunderstood moments with your cat may be more common than not. A new study by French researchers, published last month in…
In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward. Marissa and Mike Mitchell, of Newburgh, Ind., met in seventh grade and became sweethearts. They parted before high school, but reconnected in their late 20s and married. Ms. Mitchell was deployed by the Army to Iraq within…
“As always, she wakes up just before the alarm goes off.” “As always, she gets up in the dark and walks into the bathroom.” “As always, she quickly looks into the mirror. Yes, That’s her. Forty years old, mother of one, single, working.” So went the voice-over at the Undercover show: a prose poem written…
A Cherri Gervais le salieron sus primeras canas cuando era adolescente. “Es genético”, dijo. Su color de pelo, un llamativo tono plateado, es lo primero en lo que se fijó la gente en TikTok cuando les pidió que le dijeran cuántos años aparentaba en un video reciente. Las suposiciones fueron muy dispares. Muchas eran correctas,…
My mom tells the story the same way every year. I was two weeks late and my heartbeat had slowed briefly, as it turns out, because I was squeezing my umbilical cord, and the obstetrician said it was time for my grand arrival. So when I was born on the evening of Feb. 29, my…