LOGANVILLE, Wis. — Brenda Statz remembers the rain on the day they lost Leon, her husband of 34 years. The deluge had fallen for weeks, flooding their fields, delaying the harvest, pounding the roof of the barn where Mr. Statz finished his morning chores, then ended his life. It was Oct. 8, 2018, a Monday.…
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To buy or to wait? Given the wild fluctuations of airfare prices, that is a frugal flier’s persistent dilemma. A fare found today may tick up tomorrow, double next week or fall. Now Google and other online travel platforms aim to take the uncertainty out of the equation by offering guarantees or freezes, often on…
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Restaurant meals have always been celebration meals for me, but a celebration doesn’t have to mean a birthday. When I was a graduate student, before big exam days, I would hole up in my apartment subsisting on Frosted Flakes and Cheez-Its, then emerge from the shadows to treat myself to what I called Brain Dinner…
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The legal effort to ban mail-order abortion pills came along just as the fledgling telehealth industry became a more accepted and entrenched part of abortion care. This week, Hey Jane, one of more than a dozen virtual abortion providers that have no physical locations, began contracting with the insurers Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of…
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Bun dau mam tom, the lunch that Hanoi lives for, is almost always bought on the street and often eaten there, too. Like many Vietnamese dishes, it is assembled by the individual diner from a somewhat flexible roster of components. Fried tofu and pressed cold bricks of rice vermicelli are indispensable, as are cucumbers and…
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I have notifications turned on for only two Twitter accounts: One is for the city’s alternate-side parking days, and the other is @nymetrowx, an account dedicated to breathless coverage of New York City meteorology. To live here is to be incredibly attuned to the weather — after all, you’re probably going to be out in…
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The News The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized an additional round of bivalent booster shots for adults who are 65 and over as well as people with compromised immune systems. The effort is to ensure ongoing protection against Covid, which is still claiming more than 1,300 lives each week. The bivalent shots target…
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To See Clearly When people see my 20-year-old son George holding my hand, they often stare. I hold George’s hand as we cross busy streets or navigate through crowded grocery aisles. We learned that George had profound autism at age 3, an intellectual disability at age 6 and bipolar disorder at age 15. He is…
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to spend more than $1 billion on a new program to offer free coronavirus shots to uninsured Americans later this year after the vaccines move to the commercial market, administration officials said. The program for the uninsured, which will be modeled partly on an existing childhood vaccination program, will…
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Solo travel — curating a vacation perfectly suited to you and no one else — is the ultimate idiosyncratic experience. For some, the goal is to fully test their limits and develop confidence. Others say the allure of traveling alone lies in wholly embracing their desires and their own pace. It can also be about…
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