It’s finally, truly, hotly swim season.Summer has the potential for relaxation and freedom, and swimming is one of the purest distillations of those things. But if your bathing suit isn’t what you...
Read moreWhen Laura Kurtz staged lemonade stands as a child in Raleigh, N.C., they were simple affairs.“We would bring out the folding card table and chairs and pop them at the end of...
Read morePeople who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a long-lost relative.Hopwood DePree found a 60-room English manor.As a child growing up in Holland,...
Read moreI chose my college based on the vibes of the people in the school’s accepted students Facebook group. This one blond boy commented on my introduction post saying he also liked a...
Read moreI am in search of a perfect summer dress that can handle the heat waves I hear we should all start to expect. I want something that will be cool without being...
Read moreIn this week’s Modern Love essay, “A Texting Lifeline During a Difficult Time,” Tatiana Jackson-Saitz writes about the complexities of falling in love while losing her father to cancer.Ms. Jackson-Saitz just finished...
Read moreLast weekend, droves of people descended on a 15-acre park in northeast Los Angeles for an afternoon of picnicking, mingling, cheering on drag performances and a puppy costume competition, and more.Known as...
Read moreMinnie Driver clambered into a pink-and-green kayak, adjusted her legs against the foot pegs, grabbed her paddle and pushed off the wobbling dock into a choppy Hudson River. “See you in Weehawken,”...
Read moreWhen Sanjay Aakash Amin told his therapist that, one year after breaking off an engagement, he still had reservations about meeting people in bars or on apps, she suggested he attend an...
Read moreI am beginning to think that Maria Grazia Chiuri, the artistic director of Dior women’s wear, may be the most subversively political, even radical, designer in charge of a big French fashion...
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