Visits: 20 After a pandemic dip, the number of married couples “living apart together” has started to rise again. And women, in search of their own space, are driving the increase. Jeff and Connie Ordway had been married for 18 …
Lockdown Was Our Romantic Bubble, but Bubbles Burst
Visits: 24 Our connection began behind masks, with eyes only, and grew so deep so fast that I began to dread a return to normal here in Shanghai. During the two months of lockdown last spring in Shanghai, residents were …
How to Drop Out of College
Visits: 21 Everyone but me knew it was doomed from the start. I told my mother I was dropping out six weeks before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic and two weeks before Valentine’s Day. It was a panicked, frantic phone …
Tom Ford on Wearing the Same Ripped Jeans and Allowing Himself to ‘Be Unproductive’
Visits: 43 VF You’re God? TF You’re not God of the world, but you are God of that film. You decide what people say, what they do, where they go, whether they die, whether they live. You create something, and …
What to Do This Weekend
Visits: 23 Welcome. I’ve had a lot of conversations recently about how difficult it can be to articulate precisely what one is feeling these days. The headlines tell us what is happening, but they don’t always touch on what is …
Sharing Unexpected Acts of Kindness
Visits: 23 Has this happened to you? You’re going about your day, minding your business. Then you suddenly spot a caring interaction that lifts your spirits, like a couple embracing or a stranger lending a hand to another. These days, …
How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Career
Visits: 31 A FedEx driver hand-crafting soaps. A hairstylist hawking porkless bao buns. A restaurant manager repurposing denim jackets. The dream of turning a hobby in to a Plan B career is almost a cliché of the gig economy, with …
Amorphous D.J.’d His Way Through 2020
Visits: 23 Jimir Reece Davis’s 2020 wasn’t going well even before the pandemic hit. In January, he found himself homeless in Los Angeles after his living situation became untenable. Then his mother, who has epilepsy, had a bad seizure and …
How to Exercise Outdoors in Cold Weather
Visits: 821 When you are heading out, start with a base layer made of merino wool, polypropylene or material that will wick away water and sweat. This includes glove liners, socks and hats, which can get wet with sweat and …
Mushroom Grow Kits: Yes, They Work
Visits: 26 Smallhold, which opened in a shipping container in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 2017, has seen the sudden interest in fungi firsthand; in three years, the company has grown to 25 employees from two, and is still …