While most couples have a first date, followed at some point by a first kiss, Jess Seok and Gifford Brooks did not. But they didn’t skip the kissing part. Both were analysts for an economics and financial consultancy — she in its San Francisco office and he in Washington — when they met in May…
When the coronavirus forced Ariella Segal and Eli Shapiro to move their May 24 wedding to July 5, a rehearsal dinner was no longer necessary. But they did need an oil change. The couple, both 29, also switched gears regarding their wedding location, leaving the Marriott Albany in upstate New York in their rearview mirror…
Mallory Traughber had been out planting trees as a volunteer all morning on the day that she and Jessica Matthews were to have their first date, in February 2018. So when she arrived at the ramen shop, she was ready for a beer. Ms. Matthews (right),39, was impressed by her date’s volunteerism, and also by…
Every time Sigrid Carrie Gabler sees a full moon it reminds her of her first date with Manly Lin Romero in January 2019 at the Quarter, a restaurant in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. “The moment he saw me he had a big smile,” said Dr. Gabler, 57, who a few weeks earlier had decided to give…
Lana Price was living in New York in 2015 and losing enthusiasm for dating when it struck her that she and her friends, who also reported lackluster attempts at romance, should try a new approach. “We really talked a lot about how challenging it is to be a single person, and how dating can be…
Years ago, when Madigan Beck was just a girl, one of the interns on her family’s community-supported agriculture farm in Osceola, Wis., made a big impression on her. “She was a big sister figure to me,” said Ms. Beck, 28. So, in 2013, when Ms. Beck was an undergraduate at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.,…
I do not own a car or a house or even a bicycle. Nor am I prone to following Instagram trends. Yet for weeks I have had an obsession: getting rid of all my possessions, breaking the apartment lease, and moving with my dog and my girlfriend into a tricked-out van. The things I would…
Sophia Antipolis – 3 July 2020: Trouble sleeping after heart bypass surgery? Morning walks are the solution, according to research presented today on ACNAP Essentials 4 You, a scientific platform of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “Many patients have trouble sleeping after heart bypass surgery,” said study author Dr. Hady Atef of Cairo University,…
By Brianna Holt In recent months, people all over the world have taken to social media and to the streets to reject police brutality and injustice toward Black people. Protests have erupted in the United States, driven by recent deaths of Black people, including the death of George Floyd, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and…
By Brianna Holt In recent months, people all over the world have taken to social media and to the streets to reject police brutality and injustice toward Black people. Protests have erupted in the United States, driven by recent deaths of Black people, including the death of George Floyd, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and…