It’s a funny time of year. On one hand, we’re expected to kick back and relax — it’s the party season! On the other hand, it’s easy to feel surrounded, hemmed in even by the advice on how to best navigate it all. This is not a new thing. In fact, we like to think…
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Jeremy MoellerGetty Images Saks Fifth Avenue has kicked off its designer sale event, and it’s no joke. I know, I know, we’ve all been up to our ears in holiday shopping and penning wish lists. ‘Tis the season, after all. But, whether you’re finishing last-minute holiday shopping, or you wrapped your last present weeks ago,…
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PLEASANT HILL, Calif. — Bonnie Ronk is something of a public health matriarch at the Mt. Diablo Center for seniors in this liberal Northern California suburb. When Ms. Ronk, a great-grandmother whose red walker bears a sticker saying “El Jefe” (The Leader), tells her peers to pull their masks over their noses, they oblige. When…
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When I was in college, every winter break my mom would welcome me home with a Tupperware full of anar, or pomegranates in Farsi. I’d plop generous spoonfuls of the shimmering red seeds into my mouth — tart, fragrant, still deliciously cold from the refrigerator — and imagine my mother as she anticipated my arrival,…
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Entrepreneurs, as a result, have seen a business opportunity in creating an advocacy and visibility movement for menopause. Alisa Volkman, 49, who has twice greeted new phases of her life with an online start-up (the sex-positive nerve.com in her 20s, followed by the modern parenting hub babble.com) is now on to the Swell, an online…
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Some people know how they’re going to spend their New Year’s Eve well before Dec. 31. Then there are those who wait until the last minute, fretting over where to go and whom to go with, or whether they should just stay home and conk out at 10:30 p.m. (A completely understandable and excellent choice.)…
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The Drug Enforcement Administration confiscated more than 379 million doses of fentanyl this year, the agency said, and it seized more than double the number of pills laced with the potent synthetic opioid than it seized last year. The agency announced in a statement on Tuesday that it had confiscated more than 50.6 million fentanyl-laced…
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My Unwritten Chapter Before she died at 42, my wife suggested I marry her colleague, Sandee. “There are chapters yet unwritten in your life,” she said. Sitting shiva shortly before Hanukkah, I first met Sandee as my son played with toys at my feet. A year later, on our second date, I told her about…
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Amazon It’s no secret that Venus Williams is a multi-hyphenate—talented at all sorts of things beyond the sport where she made her name. The icon has style to spare, resulting in business extensions that bring her good taste to others, including EleVEN by Venus Williams, the line she launched in 2012 after getting an associate…
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Lord’s is the second restaurant the chef Ed Szymanski and his partner, Patricia Howard, have built together in Greenwich Village. The first, which put down roots in the first pandemic summer, is called Dame. With its echoes of British nobility, the naming scheme is a way of letting us know that the two restaurants are…
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