How to ‘Romanticize Your Life’

Dr. Loucks’s research and his new book, “The Mindful College Student,” illustrate how mindfulness can decrease stress and symptoms of depression, and improve sleep quality and physical activity levels. “Romanticizing your life” intersects with mindfulness, he added, in part by helping us become more in tune with ourselves. “If we’re trying to build a life…

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Fry Up Some Crab Cakes

Good morning. It’s a great newspaper section we printed last night, rolled into blue bags and delivered to the vicinity of our subscribers’ front doors this morning. I loved Kim Severson’s profile of the Gullah Geechee cook Emily Meggett, a woman who’s never used a cookbook in her life and just published her first, “Gullah…

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The Bachelor Comes to Bushwick

Jessica Callaghan, 30, was scrolling through Instagram when an advertisement offered her a boyfriend. “There is no substitute for true love!” it read. “Find it today with Elan! ‘The Bushwick Bachelor!’” Ms. Callaghan, who works in public relations, had spent nearly a decade swiping around for dates and relationships on Tinder and Hinge, but she…

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