Work Friend: A Handyman Asks: After Servicing a Home, Can I Get Paid to Service My Clients’ Other Needs?

Even a Work Friend needs a break from the office sometimes. Send in your questions about all kinds of money-related extracurriculars: marriage and divorce; windfalls and investment catastrophes; and, of course, anything that happens in a truck. Confide to workfriend@nytimes.com. Contractor Casanova I’m 62. I’ve been a handyman for 40 years. My body is breaking…

Yes, You Can Play With Your Clothes

Image Paco Rabanne, spring 2019CreditFirstview Eighteen months ago, Alexandra Connell, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, introduced the online marketplace Patti & Ricky, which bills itself as “fashion for people of all abilities.” Among the products is a line of “discreet” sliding bead fidget jewelry from Love Dawne aimed at those with A.D.H.D. and anxiety…

Seduced by Singapore’s Charismatic Orchids

It’s like being hit with a ton of … blossoms. “The Orchid Show: Singapore,” the New York Botanical Garden’s 17th annual orchid extravaganza, running through April 28, features the natural species and hybridized sensations of Southeast Asia — upward of 70 percent of the display in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Thousands of them, in…