‘The Kiss to End All Kisses’

Elisabeth Röhm and Peter Glatzer met in 2015 at the Los Angeles home of their mutual friend, the producer Robbie Brenner. If it wasn’t an immediate love connection, there was certainly a strong like. Ms. Röhm, 48, had been talking about Yaddo, the artist’s retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Mr. Glatzer, 57, a film producer…

What Does It Take to Build a Disaster-Proof House?

Ryan Runge, the president of Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies, who sold the couple their block-making machine, said the blocks are mold-proof and, when reinforced with rebar, earthquake-resistant. The walls are so thick that they retain heat in winter and remain cool enough in summer that air-conditioning isn’t necessary, at least on the first floor. “It’s…

She Wrote About the Family Babysitter

Name: Flora Collins Age: 28 Hometown: Upper East Side Currently Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Claim to Fame: Ms. Collins’s first novel, “Nanny Dearest,” a psychological thriller loosely based on an unsettling “babysitter situation that my family had when I was a child,” was highlighted by Vogue as one of “the best…

The One Was Actually ‘Number 30’

A methodical approach to dating, an open-mindedness about baseball and a mutual appreciation for a wager. These were a few of the elements that led Petra Schaefer and Bruce Hunsaker to fall in love. In 2015, Ms. Schaefer, recently divorced for a second time and having consulted a dating coach, decided that finding love again…