When Michael Northrup began fantasizing about buying a derelict fruit-processing and storage facility in Tieton, Wash., as his second home, even his design-savvy friends weren’t sure what to think. On his first visit in 2015, he said, “I took a developer friend, an architect friend and my best friend.” They all thought he was out…
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Hanging art and other decorative items on the wall — one of the final steps in furnishing your home — should be fun. So why is it often a source of anxiety? Maybe it’s because there are so many things to consider. How do you decide what to hang where? Which hardware should you use…
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It was 1846 and the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was walking around Portland, Maine, his boyhood home, when he stopped and, as he wrote, “listened to the lashing, lulling sound of the sea just at my feet. It was a beautiful afternoon, and the harbor was full of white sails, coming and departing.” Nearly two…
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Recently, Venetia Berry, an artist in London, counted up the free cotton tote bags that she had accumulated in her closet. There were at least 25. There were totes from the eco-fashion brand Reformation and totes from vintage stores, totes from Soho House, boutique countryside hotels and independent art shops. She had two totes from…
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Becca Atchison, the founding partner and creative director of Rebecca Rose Events, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., echoed this point. “In the same way that a couple planning a wedding has to make tough decisions to really prioritize and curate a guest list, sometimes as a guest you have to do that same thing,” she said.…
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Eight years ago, I spent my first 48 hours in the United States being driven around the New Jersey suburbs by an acquaintance of my father’s. In his eagerness to familiarize me with the superiority of his (and now my) surrogate nation, he took particular care to show me the fundamental institutions that, according to…
DetailsResearch suggests that people with freely moving thoughts are happier. Easy, repetitive activities like walking can help get you in the right mindset.
Women at tech start-ups wrote to her thanking her for saying what they had been feeling, Ms. Esponnette said. Lola Priego, 30, the founder of Base, which offers at-home blood and saliva tests that are processed at traditional labs, hears a Theranos comparison at least once a week, she said. The references come directly or…
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I heard that a new virus called R.S.V. is spreading among children. As a parent, should I be worried? Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as R.S.V., is an upper respiratory illness that’s very common in children. By the age of 2, nearly all children have had it. In most cases the virus causes mild, cold-…
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Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back bars 0:00/1:25 –0:00 transcript Biden Praises Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Approval President Biden lauded the final approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration and implored unvaccinated Americans not to wait any longer to be inoculated. After a strict process, the F.D.A. has reaffirmed its…
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