The Instant Summer Blueprint

Welcome. Cold peach soup. “Under the Boardwalk.” The smell of chlorine. Spitting watermelon seeds off the porch into the yard. So much limeade and lemonade (homemade, if possible). Last week, I asked you what would go on your “instant summer” list, what sounds and scents and activities conjure the season for you, no matter the…

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Let the Wedding Come to You

On a recent sunny day in June, a wedding chapel hit the road. It was just another day for the chapel on wheels, which brings the wedding to your front door — wherever that may be. “Onetime, a couple saw us coming down the Pennsylvania Turnpike, my phone goes off and they said, “‘We’re driving…

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Nursing Homes Confront New Covid Outbreaks Amid Calls for Staff Vaccination Mandates

In saying last Friday that it was monitoring outbreaks at nursing homes related to the Delta variant, the C.D.C. said some measures under review would include “testing, quarantine, visitation, use of PPE and source control.” Underscoring the concern of regulators about unvaccinated workers, Colorado just implemented a new rule that unvaccinated staff members at nursing…

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Twitter Is Stuck With Itself, Too

Twitter, by contrast, when it’s not recognizing and sanctioning new habits — not all of them good for the community — is more often in the position of merely applying a brake, or fiddling with a knob that turns between “Less Twitter” and “More Twitter,” with “Twitter” defined not by Twitter itself, but by hundreds…

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