Desiree Cooper’s grandchildren are her world. However, she never expected, or wanted, to be raising them on her own. Find out more in Ms. Cooper’s bittersweet Modern Love essay, “What if I Hadn’t Been There to Catch Them?” Want to find out how Modern Love storytelling comes to life through text, TV and audio? Join…
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Instead, their wedding night was spent with the bride’s mother helping her get out of her wedding dress after Mr. Sethi had fallen fast asleep. The couple, who are 30 and live in Harrisburg, Pa., consummated the next day. “We’re more morning sex people anyway,” Ms. Lewis said. Planning can work even for couples who…
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Summer is here and I’ve shifted into pesto mode, making and freezing as much of the sauce as I can to remain stocked through the season. Pesto is easy to buy, of course. But while most homemade sauces are better than their store-bought counterparts, the quality delta between supermarket pesto and the batch you make…
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Good morning. There are probably two dozen ways to cook food on a grill, most of them good, but in the end the question is going to be whether the fuel is gas or charcoal. A propane grill is a marvelous thing, but I don’t like using one for anything I want a hard sear…
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As June ushered in warmer weather in New York City, guests at two garden-themed events left layers at home and wore their best florals. On June 1, the New York Botanical Garden hosted its annual Conservatory Ball. Guests, who were driven in golf carts to the plaza outside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, mingled over…
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I fell for Ischia well before I ever visited it in person. In the 1999 film “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” the scene where Tom, the main character, “happens” upon Marge and Dickie, the couple he is pursuing, was filmed beneath the island’s Aragonese castle on its golden beach (the Spiaggia dei Pescatori, the beach of…
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Aftershocks from the coronavirus pandemic continue to rumble across the U.S. economy, and Signet Jewelers shared a surprising one this week: The company is selling fewer engagement rings this year because, it says, singles who were stuck at home during lockdowns failed to meet their would-be fiancés in 2020. “As we predicted, there were fewer…
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