Shubnum Khan, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, is 36 and single. Given that she was expected to be married by 25, this is not quite the future she had imagined. And yet she loves her life, and the different type of domestic contentment she has found with her parents, who still make…
Details
The reopening of New York has created a banquet of sights, smells, flavors, textures and sounds. The New York Times asked photographers to convey how the city is nourishing each of the senses. Produced by Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster Interviews by Raillan Brooks TASTE OK McCausland OK McCausland sought to capture taste. “There’s that…
Details
One of the biggest compromises I had to make with my husband, Daniel, back when we were dating was about eggplant. I realized he hated it, so I avoided cooking it for our together meals for years. Whenever I was alone, though, I went all out on the eggplant front, stewing it down with olive…
Details
Christian VierigGetty Images When it comes time to refresh your wardrobe for the season, it can be tough to tell which pieces are worth the investment. There’s nothing worse than splurging on an item that ends up spending most of its time in your closet. Sure, turning to the tried and true fashion classics is…
Details
This week, two of the F.D.A.’s top vaccine regulators announced that they would be leaving the agency this fall, apparently partly because of frustration with the administration’s booster plan. Dr. Marion Gruber, who directs the agency’s vaccines office, and her deputy, Dr. Philip Krause, have told people there was not nearly enough data to justify…
Details
Dana Bowen and her husband, Lindsay Bowen, both 49, initially had been looking to buy a roomy outpost away from New York City that could double as a vacation rental. The couple have a Brooklyn apartment, and a small house in the quaint village of Athens, in Greene County, and habitually scouted Catskill and Hudson…
Details
Valerie Persinger and Michael Webster were targets of an unlikely matchmaking pair: her sister and his former boss, who happened to be married to one another. Ms. Persinger, 33, and Mr. Webster, 34, first met in August 2017. Mr. Webster, a captain in the Air Force at the time, was attached to a Navy Squadron…
Details
Ms. Newman, a two-time Tony Award-winning actress, singer and women’s health advocate, had lived in the apartment with her husband, Adolph Green, a playwright and lyricist who shared in seven Tonys. He died in 2002. The couple raised their two children there and played host to a long list of showbiz friends. The unit, which…
Details
Ms. Prendergast now lives in Shelton, Conn., and is the chief executive of White Rose Home Care Agency in Bridgeport. She founded the company, which provides care for the elderly and disabled throughout Connecticut, in 2014, after working as a financial administrator in the oncology department at Norwalk Hospital. She started with a handful of…
Details
That’s the route that Dr. Amber Schmidtke, 40, and her family, who live in Kansas City, took during the pandemic. Over the summer, for example, she and her family packed up their camper and traveled for three weeks through Colorado and Utah. Camping, she said, is “sort of pandemic-proof.” In March, after she and her…
Details