Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share thoughts about commitment and tell us what they have learned, revealing their secret to making it work. (Answers are edited for context and space.) Who Bonnie Brescia, 60, and Jeanette Poillon, 62 Occupation…
Isaia Mattia Crosson and Anne Herndon Keffer met in 2018 when they were the first to arrive at their friends’ Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan for Christmas Day brunch. “I was in charge of cold cuts,” said Mr. Crosson, who is Italian and usually spent the holidays with his maternal family in Lodi, Italy.…
Dr. Charles Murphy was one of the first physicians in New York State to treat the initial wave of patients who tested positive for Covid-19. This was in early March at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where Dr. Murphy, a 33-year-old pulmonary and critical care fellow, worked with Dr. Nina Suda, a 33-year-old endocrinology fellow.…
Michael Braun, 37, is a national advance lead for the presidential campaign of Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee. In political parlance, he is known as an “advance man,” working with other members of Mr. Biden’s staff as well as Secret Service agents to scout locations and prepare campaign…
As a pediatric oncology nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rachel Glincher is used to bearing witness to heartache and healing. But that didn’t make it any easier when Michael Harris broke her heart in 2018. Ms. Glincher, 31, met Mr. Harris, 34, a strategic marketing director at Pfizer, on the dating app…
Yuchen Feng and Theodore Russell Sumers noticed each other in 2012 when he arranged an indoor rock-climbing outing when each was a summer intern at Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund in Westport, Conn. “I was very into rock climbing,” said Mr. Sumers, 30, who goes by Ted, and is pursuing a doctorate at Princeton in…
Rosie de Queljoe and Harrison Herzog had barely started dating when his mother took Ms. de Queljoe, in 2012, to a place in the Finger Lakes region of New York and told her that she should consider it as place for her wedding. “‘Even if you don’t marry my son,’” said Michaleen Herzog, who is…
When the Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee debuted his fine jewelry at Bergdorf Goodman in January, he had big plans for promoting his collection. But the coronavirus outbreak forced him and the luxury department-store chain to make some big adjustments. Social-distancing rules in New York, for example, meant browsing at the Fifth Avenue store had…
As the coronavirus pandemic upended wedding plans and industry jobs, many couples rescheduled their engagement photo shoots in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Others hired illustrators to commemorate their upcoming nuptials, ceremonies and other relationship milestones. Here are a few creative examples from artists. ImageCredit…MariaAlejandra Ramirez, Moda Illustrated Engagement and Save-The-Date Cards For…
Paige Martin Reynolds’s son loved bags: purses, diaper bags, suitcases, reusable grocery bags, backpacks. He also loved packing bags, filling them with anything that interested him: paperwork, produce, jewelry, juice boxes, coasters, coins. This penchant for packing — and unpacking — bags caused household objects to appear in unpredictable places (a spatula in the bathroom,…