There are family members we never get to meet, those whose absences are filled by the memories of the people who knew them. I never met my great-grandmother Osunfunke Thomas (nee Olatunji), but I’ve formed an image of her from the story of her passing, as told to me by my mother and her sisters.…
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When I first wrote about Instant Pots back in 2017, it was with the ardor of new love. I’d fallen hard for my first electric pressure cooker, delighting in the myriad ways it could improve my kitchen life. All those weeknight meals of dried beans and silky braised meats, the speedy brown rice, the endless…
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DETROIT — Around 2015, when Daniel Lee was a designer no one had ever heard of, working behind the scenes at Celine, he went on vacation to Jamaica, somehow ending up in Detroit along the way. He didn’t know that much about the city except the obvious: It had a history with cars (which he…
DetailsMedical reversals about menopause hormones, knee surgery and vitamins over the years have left patients confused. But doctors say these pivots often are good medicine.
By Miya Lee Should you trust your intuition if it has led you astray in the past? Kayla Ringelheim grapples with this question in this week’s Modern Love essay. “I had spent most of the last 15 years in serious relationships with a few different men who I believed at various points were each my…
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Sitting in bed after his five-year planning exercise, I asked him what traumas he was working through. Despite being the daughter of a social worker, or perhaps because of it, I still haven’t learned how to gently ask that question, or rather I still haven’t learned how to not ask it. “I’m actually doing really…
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Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Making a Midwest Move My partner and I are considering a move to Ohio because of the lower cost of living and the opportunity to have a good…
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I went apple picking last weekend, along with about a million other people in the New York metro area. Is it me, or does recreational apple picking just continue to surge year over year as a fall activity? Some people are not into it, which I get, and yes, cynically speaking, it’s an excellent flannel-clad…
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Robin Hood, the big kahuna of charity dinners, raised $77.5 million to fight poverty in New York City; the Oct. 20 gala drew 2,400 people to the Javits Center, including Wall Street titans, celebrities, politicians and philanthropists. God’s Love We Deliver, which provides meals to New Yorkers living with severe or chronic illness, honored Don…
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A new analysis underscores concerns about how federal aid was allocated to health care institutions under the Provider Relief Fund, a $175-billion program that has drawn sharp criticism for giving so much money to the wealthiest U.S. hospitals. The study, published Friday in JAMA Health Forum, shows that more money flowed to hospitals that were…
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