The first time Nermine Mansour hosted Christmas dinner, she was working in Guatemala as a diplomat for the Egyptian foreign service. Five continents and a family later, she has hosted many more Christmas dinners, her table always surrounded by guests from diverse backgrounds and laden with diverse dishes to match. But two offerings remain a…
’Tis the season for holiday celebrations, which also means, on TV, ’tis the season for holiday specials. At this time of year, writers take a break from the usual workplace high jinks or procedural dramas to bring viewers something a little more heartfelt, maybe even cheesy, with a healthy sprinkling of twinkly lights. Perhaps no…
For almost a month now, Sean Merriam has been walking around town with a stuffy nose and a mysterious cough that keeps clattering in his lungs. He knows it’s not Covid, because he tests regularly, and it’s not the flu, which he recovered from a few weeks ago. The culprit may be the respiratory syncytial…
Courtesy Gifting can be a daunting task, especially if the person you’re gifting has just about everything. This holiday season, we thought outside the box for a list of gifts that are sure to leave even the pickiest person on your list shocked—in a good way. From a luxurious layover to the hottest Broadway tickets,…
“The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated America’s vulnerability to catastrophic public health crises, and it highlighted the urgency of taking reasonable measures to prevent them in the future,” Senator Todd Young, an Indiana Republican and one of the bill’s co-sponsors, said in an email. “The next public health crisis is already here: the emergence of bacteria resistant…
How do you choose where you’re going? It depends. Every trip is different. I went to Southeast Asia a few years ago because I wanted to experience it in my 40s and see how it compared with my experience in my 20s. I got married during the pandemic, and we went to see my wife’s…
For generations of most American families, getting children vaccinated was just something to check off on the list of back-to-school chores. But after the ferocious battles over Covid shots of the past two years, simmering resistance to general school vaccine mandates has grown significantly. Now, 35 percent of parents oppose requirements that children receive routine…
Like so many couples before them, Constance Kelly Daniels and Emir Muhovic met at a bar. But they had taken very different paths to end up there. Ms. Daniels, who goes by Kelly, was born and raised in Panama City, Fla. Mr. Muhovic fled his home in war-torn Bosnia in 1992, when he was just…
After his first date with Shawn Patrick Lamb in January 2019, Jarrold Jenn-yu Wong began to cry. “It was first time I felt I could actually be loved unconditionally for who I am,” he said. Dating had never brought him much joy. “It was not for lack of trying,” said Mr. Wong, known to friends…
I was trying to have an experience and ended up having a life.