After months of prompting, I have finally managed to help my husband form a daily sunscreen habit. Whenever I see traces of paper white cream in his dark beard, I think, We’re halfway there. Hoping to avoid the white cast, heaviness and greasiness common in many sunscreen products available in U.S. drugstores, some Americans, including…
“On one hand, it’s very frustrating,” said Ms. Hasson, a 43-year-old associate director of development at SAR Academy and High School. “I look at my wedding pictures, and my hair is not done the way I wanted it to be done. It was in the process of being straightened.” Half of her hair was poofy,…
The boast was big: Joshua Nathan Shapiro, founder of the watch brand J.N. Shapiro, declared that its Resurgence watch is the first timepiece made in the United States in more than half a century. “There hasn’t been a watch totally made in the U.S. since Hamilton watches closed down in 1969” and moved to Switzerland,…
Candido Jacuzzi didn’t set out to turn his last name into a global brand. Nor did he intend to power a business which, though it created the family fortune, nearly tore them apart. He just wanted to ease the physical pain suffered by his son, any way he could. The Jacuzzi — that vessel of…
The wildfires that have killed at least 55 in Maui are burning on an island that also contains the part-time homes of billionaires, including Oprah Winfrey, Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos. The presence of celebrities and tech executives on the island has in the past created tension with locals. Few of the high-profile owners have…
After years of renting apartments in Brooklyn, Alex Kalita was finally ready to buy in 2017. The idea of investing in real estate was appealing, but as the founder of Common Bond Design, an interiors firm, she also wanted the opportunity to renovate, so her home could reflect her sense of style. “I made my…
A decade ago, Johnny Javier Hau Dzib took a nighttime drive around his Denver neighborhood, his mind in a suicidal thought loop. Several years later, Kenneth Wayne Felts was at home alone in nearby Arvada, Colo., contemplating death by a different means. Chemotherapy for a Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis was robbing him of life’s pleasures. “I…
We thought it would take only a couple weeks. It took three months. Every time a piece of mail came for him, I got my hopes up, but it was never the letter he needed. One official letter came addressed to “Kenneth Sean,” and Robby despaired. He had been through so many disappointments that he…
The night Emily Kate Dobies and Sal Steiner shared their first kiss in 2016, Ms. Dobies had been trying to orchestrate a match between Mr. Steiner and a mutual friend. The friend was in a troubled relationship, and Ms. Dobies thought that Mr. Steiner, with his warmth and honesty, could remind her that good dating…
Melissa Jeanne D’Andrea had already envisioned a future with Karissa Heleene Sullivan before they met. “I picked out our wedding hashtag before our first date,” Ms. D’Andrea said. It was a play on both their names: #issawedding. On Oct. 4, 2021, the two matched on Her, a dating app for people who identify as lesbian,…