If you visit Alejandro Aguilar’s Brooklyn home in early spring, the best time to show up is between 6:30 and 7 p.m. That golden half-hour is when sunlight skims over the surrounding factory buildings and streams through the windows, kissing the leaves, fronds and spines of his 250-odd houseplants. You’ll find a white moth orchid…
At its heart, the new Hulu series “Tiny Beautiful Things” is about the messiness of life. The show, based on Cheryl Strayed’s collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice columns and produced by Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, pulls back the curtain on the people who help us navigate it all. The series, premiering on Friday,…
Milkshake and Pickles are reluctant travelers. So when Patience Warren needed to take the two elderly cats on a 12-hour drive in February, she was hoping to get some pharmaceutical assistance, especially for Pickles, a petite gray tabby with a history of severe motion sickness. The dilemma: Taking Pickles to the vet typically triggered the…
In February, Cassandra Small and her husband started house hunting in northern New Jersey, assuming they would have no trouble finding a three-bedroom house in move-in condition. Instead, they discovered there were few options, and they had lots of competition for those homes. One, in Wayne, N.J., received 35 offers. Their offer — at $100,000…
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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…