Comment on this storyComment The spring week I spent in Sicily years ago, visiting my husband’s extended family, forever changed the way I see artichokes. The vegetable was in peak season then, and they were so plentiful they showed up wherever you turned — piled high at the market, sold roadside from a truck (10 … Read more
You could get lost in the landscape of a face. Daily, I marvel at the point of my daughter’s chin, like the V of geese soaring in the sky. I trace that slightly protuberant upper lip with its soft rose-petal swell. In conversations, I’m mesmerized by the way my husband’s brows hook, then flatten like … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday. She replaces Steven Ginsberg, who left The Post last year to take a position as top editor of the Athletic, a sports site owned by the New York Times. In her new job, Gold … Read more
Andrea Magno, Benjamin Moore’s director of color marketing and development, is an expert in anything to do with paint colors and paint. During her 18 years at Benjamin Moore, she has increased the number and variety of educational programs as well as research into paint trends. Paint colors she has used in her own home … Read more
Rob Lowe is celebrating a major sobriety milestone with a message for anyone else looking to join the club. “Thirty-three years ago today I found recovery and a tribe that has sustained me on my incredible, grateful journey,” the 59-year-old “Parks and Rec” actor wrote on Instagram alongside a selfie of himself in the water. … Read more
Comment on this storyComment The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld California’s right to block the sale of pork in the state unless producers abide by more humane regulations on the treatment of pregnant sows. The decision touched on constitutional issues of interstate trade and splintered the justices outside of their usual liberal-conservative blocs. Justice Neil … Read more
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are ready to swap bodies one more time. The actors are officially in talks for a sequel to “Freaky Friday,” the film where a mother and daughter magically swap bodies and see their lives through each other’s eyes. In a New York Times article published Wednesday, Curtis said fans … Read more
“On Mother’s Day, I can think of no mother more deserving than a mother that had to give one back.” Erma Bombeck said that. I like Erma ― I like that there is a writing retreat in her honor where a writer gets a free two weeks at a Marriott in Dayton, Ohio. I like … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Dear Sahaj: I work for an organization with an up or out system. I’ve been here for 20 years, am almost at the top of our system and am considered an effective leader. I never thought I was treated or viewed differently as a first-generation, female, Indian immigrant (moved to the … Read more
Comment on this storyComment When Bella was born in 2013, she didn’t leave the hospital for the first two years of her life because of a combination of a rare form of dwarfism, bowel disease and autoimmune disease. Kyla Thomson, Bella’s mom, started sharing online as a way to update her family members. As Bella … Read more