The Benefits of Reading Out Loud
Why adults should read aloud to one another, and a few recommendations to get you started.
Why adults should read aloud to one another, and a few recommendations to get you started.
Victoria Sass, an interior designer in Minneapolis, had long dreamed of owning an R.V. so she and her family could hit the open road with their living quarters attached. “I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, with a Volkswagen van,” said Ms. Sass, 40, who had fond memories of traveling with her family in their…
Miuccia Prada, currently American Vogue’s pioneering septuagenarian cover girl, was standing backstage after the Prada show, bedecked in emeralds and jade and looking slightly terrified as Emma Watson and hordes of well-wishers and journalists swarmed around her like locusts. Such is life when you transcend the role of designer and become more like a divining…
Last Thanksgiving I was seated at the head of the dining room table with my family gathered around, enjoying our traditional feast: turkey, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy and a mashed-yams-with-mini-marshmallows concoction we affectionately call “glop.” My sons, 18 and 20, piled their plates high. My mother worked her way through smaller portions and a glass…
Eight months after they met, Alison Michelle Eggert and Raylynne Michelle Perez were married. Plenty of family members and friends had wondered why so soon. The answer was twofold. “The first is that we both feel like we’ve waited long enough to find this love and don’t want to wait anymore,” Ms. Eggert said. “But…
On his Hinge dating profile, Yuwoon Choi answered a prompt: “All I ask is that you … be open to dating someone in a wheelchair.” The prompt, in conjunction with his profession as general counsel at Samsung, caught Danni Liu’s eye when she came across his profile in May 2023. She matched with him and…
Conor Thomas Cahill was wearing a Santa suit and a cast boot when he made eye contact with Jenna Ann Wynne at the Public House in Midtown Manhattan in December 2015. A group of mutual friends had met at the bar for drinks during SantaCon, a yearly Santa Clause convention in Manhattan. Ms. Wynne, a…
Roger Guillemin, a neuroscientist who was a co-discoverer of the unexpected hormones with which the brain controls many bodily functions, died on Wednesday at a senior living facility in San Diego. He was 100. His death was confirmed by his daughter Chantal Guillemin. Dr. Guillemin’s career was marked by two spectacular competitions that ruffled the…
Much to my dentist’s dismay, I love sweets. A meal simply doesn’t feel complete without something sugary at the end, and many a 3 p.m. slump has been avoided with a well-timed cookie. A few weeks ago, a waiter called my group her favorite table after we ordered the entire dessert menu. But I understand…
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