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☆ As Gen X-ers Inch Toward Retirement, They’re Considering Where to Live
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Gregory Schmidt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But as the children became adults and moved out, the second floor was deserted and maintaining the lawn and pool became a burden. Like many members of Generation X facing an empty nest, the Shipleys decided to look for a home better suited to their needs where they could eventually live in retirement. They chose a three-bedroom, single-story house in Bridgeland, a planned community about 35 miles away. “We could live here forever.”Mr. Shipley, 54, added that the single story was a draw. Its oldest members are several years away from retirement, but they are already starting to think about where they will live in their 70s, 80s and even 90s.

Persons: Erin Shipley, “, Mrs, Shipley, Mr, “ It’s, ” Locations: Sugar Land , Texas, Bridgeland

☆ Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Jan Hoffman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The death certificate for Ryan Bagwell, a 19-year-old from Mission, Texas, states that he died from a fentanyl overdose. A federal law enforcement lab found that none of the pills from the bottle tested positive for Percocet. But they all tested positive for lethal quantities of fentanyl. As millions of fentanyl-tainted pills inundate the United States masquerading as common medications, grief-scarred families have been pressing for a change in the language used to describe drug deaths. They want public health leaders, prosecutors and politicians to use “poisoning” instead of “overdose.” In their view, “overdose” suggests that their loved ones were addicted and responsible for their own deaths, whereas “poisoning” shows they were victims.

Persons: Ryan Bagwell, Sandra Bagwell, “ Ryan, ” Mrs . Bagwell, ” Locations: Mission , Texas, United States

☆ How Did Haley’s South Carolina Become Trump Country? Ask the Tea Party.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Charles Homans | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Nikki Haley ran for governor of South Carolina in 2010, one of her early campaign stops was the Aiken, S.C., living room of Claude and Sunny O’Donovan. “We fell in love with her,” Mr. O’Donovan, 85, said. “She was a dynamite gal.”A digital picture frame in the O’Donovans’ home still displays a photograph of Ms. Haley at the meeting. But on Feb. 24, when Ms. Haley faces Donald J. Trump in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary, both of the O’Donovans plan to vote for Mr. Trump. “I think he has the values of the Tea Party,” Mrs. O’Donovan, 84, said.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Aiken, Claude, Sunny O’Donovan, O’Donovan, Haley, “, ” Mr, Donald J, Trump, ” Organizations: Tea Party, Trump, Republican, Mr Locations: South Carolina, S.C, Aiken County, South

☆ Quietly Dressing Hollywood’s Cool Girls
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Christopher Barnard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On it was the actress Greta Lee, who was trying on a satin gown the same color as the flesh of a banana. “This dress cannot puddle,” Mrs. Goldberg, 40, said, squinting her eyes as she focused on a slight break at the bottom of the custom Loewe piece. (Ms. Lee is an ambassador for the brand.) “What it’s doing right now,” Mrs. Goldberg said of the dress onscreen, “it can’t do that. It has to be perfect.” Nanaz Hatami, a tailor Mrs. Goldberg has worked with for five years, who was with Ms. Lee, sprang into action.

Persons: Danielle Goldberg, Greta Lee, Mrs, Goldberg, Lee, Nanaz, Ayo Edebiri, Olivia Rodrigo Organizations: Globe Locations: New York, Los Angeles

☆ Mica Ertegun, Glamorous Interior Designer and Philanthropist, Dies at 97
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In 2015, her $9 million gift created an atrium for Jazz at Lincoln Center. In recognition of that gift, she was named grand commander of the Holy Sepulcher by the patriarch of Jerusalem. Her $41 million gift for humanities scholarships at the University of Oxford in 2012 was the largest of its kind in Oxford’s 900 years. Amid Allied air raids, Mica, as her German nurse called her, was sent to the family’s country estate. Others paid their fares to Paris, where Mica got modeling jobs to support them.

Persons: Mr, Ertegun, Christ, Jerusalem, Queen Elizabeth II, “, Ahmet, Mrs, ” Mica Ertegun, Ioana Maria Banu, Natalia Gologan, Gheorghe Banu, King Carol II, King Michael I, Hitler, Mica, Stefan Grecianu, Friends Organizations: Jazz, Lincoln Center, University of Oxford, Communist Locations: Manhattan, Jerusalem, American, British, Bucharest, Romania, Mica, Zurich, Swiss, Paris, Canada, Lake Ontario

☆ Don’t Try This on Vacation: Learning From Other Travelers’ Mistakes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Derek M. Norman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Nadia Caffesse, that pain came in the form of a number of tiny needles lodged in her hands, forearms and chest. In September 2006, Mrs. Caffesse, now 45, and her family were driving through Big Bend National Park in Texas, where she found herself admiring the native blind prickly pear cactuses jutting out along the rocky roadside. She was violating a cardinal rule when visiting a national park: Take only memories and leave only footprints. “They are a poetic threat.”She knew she’d made a mistake the second she grabbed the paddle of the cactus. “The pain was instant, searing and, because of the diffuse nature of all those tiny needles, unrelenting,” Mrs. Caffesse recalled.

Persons: Nadia Caffesse, Caffesse, ”, “, she’d Organizations: Big Locations: Texas

☆ The Carters’ Hometown Mourns for the Love of a Lifetime
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Rick Rojas | More About Rick Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There was a time, Rosalynn Carter once confessed, when she dreaded going back to Plains, her tiny Georgia hometown. She was enjoying her life as a young sailor’s wife, relishing the freedom and sense of adventure that came from being so far from home. “I had been self-sufficient and independent from my mother and Jimmy’s mother,” Mrs. Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, recalled several years ago in an interview. “And I knew that if I went home, I was going to have to come back to them.”The anger faded. Eventually, she said, no matter where she was in the world, she was always eager to get home to Plains.

Persons: Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy, “, ” Mrs, Carter Organizations: U.S . Navy Locations: Plains, Georgia

☆ At 98, She’s a Social Media Star
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Chrissie Evert commented on my serve,” Mrs. Wiggins said in the living room of her brownstone, where she and Mr. Astor, 59, were seated next to a crackling fire. “She said it looks like her serve.”Part of the accounts’ charm lies in her indifference to social media. Mrs. Wiggins, who was raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, met him when she was in her early 30s, and they were married for 61 years. “When my husband died, I was totally devastated,” Mrs. Wiggins said. “My whole life was him.” Referring to her social media accounts, she added, “My son started this, because he thought it would take my mind off the grief.”

Persons: can’t, “ Chrissie Evert, ”, Wiggins, Astor, “, “ TikTok, ” Guy Wiggins Organizations: Foreign Service Locations: Midtown, East Hampton, Instagram, Amagansett, Forest, Queens

☆ Ready to Retire? Consider Your Family First.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Joanne Kaufman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But unable to make a final decision she asked her elder daughter, a college administrator in Richmond, Va., to come north and weigh in. Her daughter did as requested, only to suggest that her parents consider another option altogether: a senior living community in Richmond. “I asked her, ‘Why on earth would I do that?’” recalled Mrs. Genoni, now 79. “And then she told us, ‘Sooner or later one or both of you are going to need an advocate,’” Mrs. Genoni recalled. “‘Why would you make me worry about you from a distance when you could be living near me?’”

Persons: Marta Genoni, Kenneth, “, ’ ”, Genoni, ‘, ’ Organizations: New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, ‘ Sooner Locations: Westfield, N.J, Richmond , Va, Richmond, New Jersey

☆ Get Ready for Your Wedding, but Make It Glam
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Chloe Anello | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mrs. Ume-Ezeoke already had a delicate lace robe to wear while getting ready for her July 2022 wedding, but she sent it to her sister anyway. Mrs. Ume-Ezeoke, a senior associate at a health care tech company, had three wedding ceremonies to celebrate her and her husband’s different cultures — Nigerian, Korean and American. An ornate robe felt right for getting ready with her bridal party for the American wedding. “I wanted to have this one moment of collective feminine energy and to pop champagne and be sexy,” Mrs. Ume-Ezeoke said. She’s not alone in wanting to bask in the getting ready aspect of the day.

Persons: Veronica Ume, Ume, “, ”, Ezeoke, She’s Locations: Ukrainian

☆ At Mrs. Roper Romps, the Caftan Is Queen
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“The way that she is constantly needling Mr. Roper is a takedown of the patriarchy,” Baume said in a phone interview. The ladies got tipsy on the Oh, Stanley, a special cocktail of white rum and grenadine named for one of Mrs. Roper’s frequent hubby-shaming chastisements. Nancy Rafi, a 65-year-old retired event planner who co-organized the Romp, said she wasn’t surprised tickets sold out quickly. For many women of her generation, she said, Mrs. Roper was “a feminist icon.”“I loved Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt,” said Rafi, who is also a practicing witch. “But they were very vanilla to me.” Mrs. Roper, she said, “was a firecracker.”

Persons: Mr, Roper, ” Baume, “, Stanley, Roper’s, Nancy Rafi, wasn’t, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, ”, Rafi, Mrs Locations: Providence, perm

☆ Another Blow to Boris Johnson as U.K. Parliament Ratifies Damning Report
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Mark Landler | Stephen Castle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Still, however tortured the deliberations, the outcome was a damning verdict for Mr. Johnson. It foreclosed — at least for the moment — any plausible return to power for a flamboyant figure whose three years in Downing Street were marked by a landslide electoral victory in 2019 but nearly ceaseless scandals after that. After more than five hours of discussion lawmakers voted by 354 to 7 to approve the report, a crushing victory for Mr. Johnson’s critics. In a debate marked by sorrow, anger and occasional flashes of humor, lawmakers from both sides stood up to condemn Mr. Johnson for his duplicity and to call for Parliament to endorse the report, as a way of rebuilding trust in British public life. A handful of Tories spoke in defense of Mr. Johnson, a shrunken band of loyalists for a figure who once enjoyed firm command of the House of Commons.

Persons: Johnson, Johnson —, Johnson’s, Theresa May, ” “, Mrs, May Organizations: Conservative Locations: Downing

☆ Indictment Brings Trump Story Full Circle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There was a time, not that long ago really, when Donald J. Trump said he cared about the sanctity of classified information. That, of course, was when his opponent was accused of jeopardizing it and it was a useful political weapon for Mr. Trump. “I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information,” he declared. Even in the what-goes-around-comes-around department of American politics, it is rather remarkable that the issue that helped propel Mr. Trump to the White House in the first place now threatens to ruin his chances of getting back there. The indictment handed up by a federal grand jury at the request of the special counsel Jack Smith effectively brings the Trump story full circle.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Hillary Clinton, “ I’m, ”, ” Mrs, “ disqualifies, Jack Smith, “ Organizations: “, ”, White House, Mr, White

☆ Four Bedrooms for $275,000? An Upstate Couple Hoped to Find a Family Home to Grow In.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Michele Lerner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She owned a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Geneva, a city of about 12,000 in the Finger Lakes region of central New York, 45 miles southeast of Rochester. “There’s still almost no inventory in our area, which saw growing demand pre-Covid because of the emergence of the local wine, craft-beer and food scenes in the Finger Lakes,” Mr. Toner said. With up to $275,000 to spend, the Wayners hoped to find a single-family home with at least three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Mr. Wayner wanted it to be in a walkable neighborhood like the one he had enjoyed in Rochester. “Most of the homes in the city of Geneva are older, but we weren’t really looking for a house that needed a lot of renovation,” Mrs. Wayner said.

☆ Lowe’s Opens Warehouses to Stow Goods to Improve Seasonal Distribution Efficiency
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Liz Young | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

Lowe’s Cos. is opening more warehouses that will serve as storage facilities for offseason goods, a strategy the home-improvement retailer says will help it more efficiently distribute its inventory. The facilities are part of a broader $1.7 billion investment Lowe’s has been making in its supply chain to fill online orders faster. That has included adding e-commerce fulfillment centers to its network that pick and pack orders for delivery to customers’ homes. The company now has more than 100 logistics facilities. Lowe’s reported comparable sales, those from stores and digital channels operating for at least 12 months, fell 1.5% in the fourth quarter.

☆ Challenge to Kevin McCarthy Is a Biggs Joke
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Karl Rove | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In her early years in the California Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi saw a lot of the legendary “Big Daddy” of Golden State politics, Assembly Speaker and later State Treasurer Jesse Unruh . She even scored $20,000 from Donald Trump to help flip the House in 2006—Democrats’ first victory in that chamber after 12 years in the minority. While her House Majority super PAC raised an astonishing $160 million for 2020 and $181 million for 2022, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a former sandwich shop owner from California’s Central Valley, raised even more. He collected $166 million in 2020 and $260 million in 2022 for his Congressional Leadership Fund PAC. That financial edge was critical to hard-fought GOP victories in places such as New York, California and Oregon, without which Republicans wouldn’t have won the majority.

☆ Paul Pelosi Released From Hospital After Hammer Attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Natalie Andrews | Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her husband was released from a San Francisco hospital Thursday, nearly a week after he was attacked by a man with a hammer who broke into their home, an assault that underscored the threat of political violence as the U.S. heads into the midterm elections. “Paul remains under doctors’ care as he continues to progress on a long recovery process and convalescence,” Mrs. Pelosi said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “He is now home surrounded by his family who request privacy,” she said.

☆ ‘Dying Inside’: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Megan Shutzer | Rachel Lauren Mueller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +47 min

But inside the walls at Ware, one of the state’s largest juvenile detention facilities, children have been trying to kill themselves with stunning regularity. In Louisiana, where brutal conditions prompted juvenile justice reform two decades ago, the system is again in crisis. Most Ware guards are Black, as well, though nearly all of its leaders are white, as are the local judge, sheriff and district attorney. “Of course, they still do.” In reports to the state, Ware’s nurses described carpet burns on children’s faces and head-to-toe bruises from restraints. In fact, of the four guards convicted of sexually assaulting children at Ware, Mr. Peace would be the only one imprisoned.

☆ Hillary Clinton’s Doctor Says Pneumonia Led to Abrupt Exit From 9/11 Event
▼ + stars: | 2016-09-12 | by ( Jonathan Martin | Amy Chozick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mrs. Clinton was taken from the morning event at ground zero to the Manhattan apartment of her daughter, Chelsea. About 90 minutes after arriving there, Mrs. Clinton emerged from the apartment in New York’s Flatiron district. “I’m feeling great,” Mrs. Clinton said. “It’s a beautiful day in New York.”Mrs. Clinton left in her motorcade without the group of reporters that is designated to travel with her in public. A campaign spokesman, Nick Merrill, indicated that she had returned to her Chappaqua, N.Y., residence sometime after 1 p.m., and Mrs. Clinton was not seen publicly the rest of the day.

Persons: Hillary Clinton, Donald J, Trump, Clinton, Mrs, “, ” Mrs, Nick Merrill Organizations: Secret Service, Republican Locations: New York, Manhattan, Chelsea, New York’s Flatiron

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