At the architect Philip Johnson’s former estate in New Canaan, Conn., there has long been a Glass House and a Brick House. Now there’s also a Paper House. The Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Paper Log House, to be exact. An exhibition of this simple, low-cost structure — designed in 1995 to house victims…
Deborah Jennifer Yarchun was shocked when her friend swiped left on Benjamin Ernest Parr. “Why would you do that?” she asked of her friend’s rejection of Mr. Parr on the League, a dating app for ambitious people. She had been drawn to his photo. “He just looked so happy and kind,” Ms. Yarchun said. A…
Deborah Jennifer Yarchun was shocked when her friend swiped left on Benjamin Ernest Parr. “Why would you do that?” she asked of her friend’s rejection of Mr. Parr on the League, a dating app for ambitious people. She had been drawn to his photo. “He just looked so happy and kind,” Ms. Yarchun said. A…
Boarding a flight to Boston from Los Angeles in January 2018, Alex Zhou noticed a cute guy helping someone with their bag. The guy, Eddie Lin Kay, turned out to be her seatmate. She spent the flight with headphones on, watching “Merlin,” a TV show, on her iPad. Hours later, as the plane began its…
Boarding a flight to Boston from Los Angeles in January 2018, Alex Zhou noticed a cute guy helping someone with their bag. The guy, Eddie Lin Kay, turned out to be her seatmate. She spent the flight with headphones on, watching “Merlin,” a TV show, on her iPad. Hours later, as the plane began its…
Caroline Noel Franklin said that Kevin Knipple Wilkes had the softest lips when they first kissed in 1973. It proved true again 49 years later. “Every time I kiss this man it’s effervescent bubbles,” said Ms. Franklin, now 66. In 1971, she was among 20 girls joining 60 boys in the first coed freshman high…
Caroline Noel Franklin said that Kevin Knipple Wilkes had the softest lips when they first kissed in 1973. It proved true again 49 years later. “Every time I kiss this man it’s effervescent bubbles,” said Ms. Franklin, now 66. In 1971, she was among 20 girls joining 60 boys in the first coed freshman high…
In June 2021, Francis Charles Marley checked out Ashleé Michele Miller’s Match.com profile, but clicked away without so much as a like. She would have let it go if the app hadn’t pictured him cradling a baby moose in the middle of a raging Alaskan river. Ms. Miller, 35, was riding out the pandemic at…
In June 2021, Francis Charles Marley checked out Ashleé Michele Miller’s Match.com profile, but clicked away without so much as a like. She would have let it go if the app hadn’t pictured him cradling a baby moose in the middle of a raging Alaskan river. Ms. Miller, 35, was riding out the pandemic at…
One day before our seventh wedding anniversary, and six weeks after our first child was born, my husband told me he was having an affair. (The tense matters: having, not had.) As his confession reverberated in my ears, I rocked our daughter, asleep after her 10th (11th?) nursing session of the day. My nipples ached,…