Quarantines

May 8, 2020
Published by TAMMY La GORCE at May 8, 2020
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The Little Wedding on the Deck

Ashley Gruber always made a point of paying attention in church. This helped salvage her wedding. Ms. Gruber and her fiancé, Jeph Mwaituka, had planned to […]
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May 6, 2020
Published by Joanne Kaufman at May 6, 2020
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The Pandemic and Package Overflow

“It’s like Christmas on steroids.” That’s how the doorman of one Upper East Side co-op recently described the tidal wave of cartons and boxes spilling out […]
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May 6, 2020
Published by Adam Satariano at May 6, 2020
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How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home

LONDON — On April 23, I started work at 8:49 a.m., reading and responding to emails, browsing the news and scrolling Twitter. At 9:14 a.m., I […]
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May 4, 2020
Published by Chantel Tattoli at May 4, 2020
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Smash a Coronavirus Piñata. You’ll Feel Better.

If you cannot join, beat. Such is the resolve of creative people bashing piñatas to defeat a pandemic (or at least, excise some of their feelings […]
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May 3, 2020
Published by Vivian Yee at May 3, 2020
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Beirut’s Nightlife Survived Civil War. Can It Withstand Pandemic?

BEIRUT, Lebanon — When the disruptive threat of the coronavirus first came for Beirut, I was, appropriately enough, in a local bar. When a friend and […]
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May 1, 2020
Published by Grandfather_Clocks at May 1, 2020
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How to Be a Good Neighbor Now

We walk the dogs across the meadow in the rain. We don’t talk much. We say the same things over and over, and yet somehow there’s […]
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April 30, 2020
Published by Molly Oswaks at April 30, 2020
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People Have Gone Full 1800s

“I’ve gone full Victorian,” said Rhian Rees, 34, of flower pressing, a childhood hobby she’s rediscovered in quarantine. “It feels like we’re back in the old […]
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April 27, 2020
Published by Claire Cain Miller at April 27, 2020
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Three Things Lockdowns Have Exposed About Working and Parenting

If you’re an involved parent, especially a mother, you’re supposed to play down that fact at work or risk being penalized — at least at many […]
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April 24, 2020
Published by Sarah Rosen at April 24, 2020
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When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months

My boyfriend broke up with me the week before they found my neighbor. The breakup happened in the evening; I had spent the day grocery shopping […]
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April 23, 2020
Published by Rina Raphael at April 23, 2020
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Be a Friend to the Elderly, Get Paid

Bill Rodger, 91, often finds himself sitting on a worn flower-print couch in his living room in North Hollywood, Calif., facing a wall of accolades that […]
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