I was at Nubar, an elegant cafe near Harvard Square, to meet David, with whom I had been corresponding online. He sounded like the perfect man: a recently retired professor, early 70s, grew up in Brooklyn, taught psychology and social sciences in New York, California and Massachusetts, and was divorced, with two grown sons in…
For seven months, Robert Laureano Hall and Kwai Yuen Cheng’s relationship operated on a misunderstanding. Mr. Hall thought that they were dating; Ms. Cheng thought they were just friends. Both admit to being nonconfrontational and shy about their feelings for each other, which led to the miscommunication. Mr. Hall knew he liked Ms. Cheng, who…
It took two different dating apps, two cities, a pandemic, and more than two post-breakup run-ins for Kiyona Carswell and Alison Wynn to realize that they were finally serious about each other. “A lot of people don’t make me laugh,” Ms. Carswell said, yet Ms. Wynn’s dry humor on Tinder hooked Ms. Carswell for a…
Catriona Campbell Duncan and Sarah Gail Palmisano have no doubt that the popularity of the NPR game show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” is well deserved. But they wouldn’t really know, even though their first date, in August 2018, was a live taping of the show in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Ms. Duncan and Ms.…
Some people know instantly when they meet “the one.” But when Samantha Rose Weinstein met Philip Joseph Della Noce, “It was not love at first sight,” she said. “We weren’t too fond of each other at the beginning.” The two met Aug. 26, 2010 at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., on their first day…
Bronze Age humans have been credited with a number of civilizational advancements: the invention of irrigation, the wheel, writing systems and the ability to forge weapons and tools from the durable metal that lends the era its name. Now, strands of human hair discovered in an ancient burial cave in Spain suggest another novelty: a…
For Times readers on Nov. 15, 1981, Ms. Sheraton caught the moods of open markets from Africa to Asia: “In Calcutta, graceful women in silken saris are colorful competition for the pyramided cones of earth-toned spices they sell in the markets. The Indian women provide a sharp contrast to the workmen in the Tsukiji wholesale…
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Meg is the Associate Fashion Commerce Editor at ELLE.com where she researches trends, tests products, and looks for answers to all your burning questions. She also co-writes a monthly column, Same Same But Different. Meg has previously written for Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. Her passions include travel, buffalo sauce, and sustainability. She will never…
Like little black dresses, you can never have too many roast chicken recipes. Especially the French kind. So, when Florence Chapgier, a Paris-born reader living in Los Angeles, emailed me this recipe from her French mother, Christiane Baumgartner, for roast chicken with tarragon, butter and Cognac, I immediately gave it a try. Ms. Chapgier’s name…