5 Ways to Support a Friend Through a Divorce
The end of a marriage can be incredibly isolating. But small gestures from loved ones can provide some relief.
Beth Linker is Turning Good Posture On its Head
For decades, the idea of standing properly upright carried considerable political and social baggage. Slouching was considered a sign of decay. In the early 20th century, posture exams became mainstays in the military, the workplace and schools, thanks in part to the American Posture League, a group of physicians, educators and health officials that formed…
Their Sunday Ritual Kept Them Connected
Asiah Janai James was feeling spontaneous in August 2014 when she invited her co-worker, Gerald Leon Cannon II, to meet up with her at the Afropunk Festival in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ms. James had been in a series of serious relationships, but when Mr. Cannon called, she was learning to “go with…
Marrying the One Who Almost Got Away
From the moment Marc Julius Reyes laid eyes on Elaiza Joyce Ramos, he was smitten. “Elaiza was the only girl at school that caught my interest on Day 1,” Mr. Reyes said. But this love-at-first-sight tale, which began on June 13, 2011, with two high school sophomores at a school in Quezon City, Philippines, didn’t…
Evan Ross Katz’s Wedding Features V.I.P. Guests and a Weed-Infused Reception
In June 2018, Billy Jacobson met a guy on the dating app Grindr whom he recognized from the internet. At the time, he’d been watching a lot of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” and had come across a video of Evan Ross Katz, then a senior style editor at the media company Mic, interviewing the contestants Trixie…
When Love Means Being Selfish
“You cannot use my dog to attract other girls,” my ex emailed from Taiwan. She could see on social media that I had been on a ski tour with a woman, and there were photos of the dog, Bhoga, bounding downhill in the broken snow of our ski tracks. Not that I believed she had…
The State Department Kept His Proposal on Course
It never bothered Benjamin Andrew Krauss in the slightest if Shana Gabrielle Mansbach took a call from Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, while they were out to dinner, and then ran off to draft a letter or a speech. “That happened not infrequently,” said Mr. Krauss, 40, who knew the situation all too…
Was Shakespeare Really Born in This Stratford-upon-Avon House?
Sometime in the late 18th century, a sign appeared outside a shambly butcher’s hut in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon: “The Immortal Shakspeare was born in this house,” it announced, using a then common spelling of his name. Devotees began making pilgrimages — dropping to their knees, weeping, singing odes: “Untouched and sacred be thy…
One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu
Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday. Samples from parts of the country that are known to have dairy herds infected with the virus were more likely…
José Andrés Eulogizes 7 World Central Kitchen Workers Killed in Gaza
A stone pulpit in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is no place the chef José Andrés expected to be when he created the food charity World Central Kitchen nearly 15 years ago. But on Thursday he stood there, eulogizing seven of the organization’s workers who were killed in the Gaza Strip while trying to…