How to Stay Safe From Covid This Holiday Season
As our third pandemic winter approaches, you can mitigate risk without missing out.
Para encontrar el amor, frota el bulto (de bronce)
Micah y yo volvimos a hablar otra vez por FaceTime. Primero mes con mes, luego cada semana. Antes de mi regreso, nos dejamos de hablar por tres días en busca de sabiduría. Casi me desmayo en el aeropuerto de Lisboa. No importaba. Ambos obtuvimos nuestra respuesta, y esa respuesta fue no. No teníamos un “por…
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Overlooked No More: Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, Creators of a Personality Test
But the Myers-Briggs test had an intrinsic thematic quality that the others lacked. Most existing tests concluded that each personality category had a positive and a negative: An extrovert was good, an introvert was bad, for instance. But Myers felt that each personality type had strengths and weaknesses. Rather than build a test that favored…
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This Year’s Winter Jewelry Trends Are Big, Bold Takes on Timeless Classics
The rules of style often dictate restraint, but based on the winter 2022 fashion trends, there were no such inhibitions. Even the jewelry at the fall/winter 2022 fashion shows went toe-to-toe with blocky shoulder pads, oversized jackets, sparkly tops, clashing prints, and blinding neon fabrics, almost out-competing the clothes for attention. But the metals and…
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Easy Pasta and Noodle Recipes Our Staff Love
Ease is subjective, and its meaning can vary depending on who you ask. In this collection of staff favorite recipes, easy can mean that your meal comes together in 15 minutes, or that it requires no more than six ingredients, or that you can pop a casserole dish of kitchen staples into the oven without…
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See Maggie Rogers Get Ready for Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2023 Show
Courtesy “I’ve always loved dressing for the stage,” Maggie Rogers tells ELLE.com. “There’s so much playfulness and movement—it’s such a creative place to think about texture and ways it can amplify the music.” Though the singer didn’t technically perform at Ralph Lauren’s spring 2023 show last night, she did put on a sartorial show of…
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Looking for Work Advice: Care a Little Less What Other People Do
A No-Retreat Retreat I am a member of a unit of about 10 people at a nonprofit. The head of our group recently announced we would gather for a one-day retreat to strategize for the next fiscal year. Our office is undergoing major renovations, but rather than find an alternative venue, my boss still set…
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Can Balenciaga Break With Kanye?
Mr. Galliano is the former Dior designer who was fired after a drunken antisemitic rant in a Paris bar, and who was later subject to a court trial (in France, inciting racial hatred is a crime), fined and forced out of fashion until he had gone through rehabilitation and made years of amends. But therein…
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The Fight for the Soul of Pilates
‘Around the Clock’ Last fall, Christina Gadar, a Pilates instructor in Sarasota, Fla., planned to post on Instagram a photo that showed her recreating Mr. Pilates’s “Around the Clock” flier. Because she knew of Mr. Gallagher’s disagreements with other Pilates instructors, she informed him of her plan in an email, she said. He replied that…
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Need for Speed
After last week’s newsletter about soup, which generally takes longer to cook, I thought this week I’d focus exclusively on dishes that you can make in less than 30 minutes — and, in one case, less than 15. These are the recipes I need most right now, in the craziness of high fall and its…
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