Honey, Let’s Ditch the Kids

Over the summer Viviane Trinh, 35, received a surprising email from her parents, her mother in her late 60s and her father in his mid-70s, explaining that they wanted to skip the family’s Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations this year and take a six-week cruise from Japan to Singapore. “They asked if anyone had objections,” she…

Merry Christmas. I Got You a Tiny Cow.

Dear Santa, I’ve been so very good this year. Could you please bring me a miniature cow? I promise I’ll take excellent care of it. Please, please, pleaaaaaase! While it might sound ridiculous, miniature cows have become a much-requested holiday gift in recent years. “Just had one picked up this morning,” Allie Sine, a rancher…

How People Dress for the Holidays in NYC

Style outside Photographer Simbarashe Cha documents fashion on Fifth Avenue in December. Share full article By Simbarashe Cha Simbarashe Cha made these photographs and videos on the streets of New York City, and wrote this article. His visual column, Style Outside, explores street style around the world. Dec. 22, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET card:1 of…

Old Friends Find New Love

Shortly after signing their prenuptial agreement the morning of Dec. 7 in Miami, Barbara Guggenheim and Alan Joel Patricof were, as usual, watching the clock. Not because they were counting the days until they were married — they are so in love, both said, that this was a given — but because that’s what their…