For an escape in the San Juan Islands, a little more than two hours north of Seattle, Joe Herrin knew he wouldn’t need much. Growing up, the highlight of every summer was a two-week boat trip around those islands near the Canadian border, where his family slept within the confines of a 26-foot-long boat hull.…
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As Hugh Stephen Baran headed home in April 2015 to the Upper East Side of Manhattan after a Passover Seder with some high school friends in Englewood, N.J., Jacob Ellis Kaplan Rozenberg messaged him on Grindr, a dating app for gay men. The next day he met Mr. Rozenberg at a bubble tea shop near…
Andrew Douglas Ousley and Fay Eva Leshner met through mutual friends on Aug. 9, 2014 while having cocktails at the now-closed Portuguese restaurant Pão! in SoHo. They bonded instantly, as creative New Yorkers often do. Ms. Leshner, 35, is a freelance fashion stylist and designer from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Mr. Ousley, 40, who is from…
Ms. Arthur proposed in July 2021 in Daddy’s Plants, a plant shop in Buffalo. After she went down on one knee, Mx. Cohen read out loud a poem that they had written for Ms. Arthur and had kept in their wallet for months. The two framed the poem in their apartment in Park Slope, where…
Neither Diana Ming nor Jonathan Barrett Gold seemed to want their first date to ever end. After connecting on the dating app Hinge, the two agreed to meet on March 22, 2018 at Goodnight Sonny, a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. “We instantly bonded while consuming spicy margaritas and laughing,” said Ms. Ming, 30, a…
When I was 13, my mother learned that she had multiple sclerosis. By that point she couldn’t drive, get dressed or walk by herself. My father became her sole caretaker, and she was less than appreciative. When she rang the buzzer, he never got there fast enough. When he brought her a glass of water,…
For circus performers, it takes a lot to stand out at a festival. But when Ryan Shinji Murray heard about how Juanita Cardenas arrived at the Montreal Complètement Cirque festival in 2015, he was intrigued. “I heard that a couple people had ridden their bikes from Brooklyn to Montreal and I thought, I need to hang out with…
Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health.
Why It Matters: Some people remain at risk. Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax have made it clear that they need time to make tens of millions of doses of the shots that would be available in the fall. “I think that’s what today’s discussion is about — how to best to come up with what goes…