At the height of the pandemic, Ilson Leir Goncalves was winning a reputation around Montclair, N.J., as a restaurateur who refused to quit.In the spring of 2020, he sold his house and...
Read moreHannah Shea Sellinger often got on the mic during pep rallies at Byron Nelson High School in Trophy Club, Texas, with a nod to the girls’ varsity basketball team.“She made varsity freshman...
Read moreAt their in-person wedding welcome party for about 80 guests, with fire pits and s’mores in Pescadero, Calif., a friend read a poem about superpowers. Theirs, the couple announced, was the ability...
Read moreAll too often, remaining a publicly viable woman in the second half of life means — paradoxically — doing one’s utmost to look like one is still in the first half of...
Read moreMark Arnold had owned a few different homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, but none of them fulfilled a dream he had harbored since childhood. “I always wanted to build my...
Read moreThe first time Jennifer Nicole Walters spoke with John Clark Palicka was over the phone, it was in preparation for a training mission scheduled for the following day. Both were U.S. Air...
Read moreYears later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean...
Read moreA heartfelt smile can be infectious, and for Anna Clare Spelman and Peter Prix, it commenced their love story.Ms. Spelman and Mr. Prix had been living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for less...
Read moreMarisol Malaret, who in 1970 overcame a difficult childhood to become the first woman from Puerto Rico, and from the Caribbean, to win the Miss Universe pageant — and who then brokered...
Read more“My parents’ biggest rule is, like, I’m not allowed to have any public social media accounts,” Romy Mars says in a video she posted to TikTok.Ms. Mars, 16, the daughter of the...
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