Looking to get back to work after a pandemic break? That gap on your résumé might not be the obstacle you think it is. The stigma around career pauses, already beginning to ebb in recent years, has eased further amid Covid, according to recruiters, job seekers and human resources executives. The past year has left […]
Our fathers can be an enigma. They typically don’t talk as much as our mothers. They may not share their feelings readily. Many fathers, especially in an older generation, channel their communication with their children through their wives. And even when they do share their thoughts or opinions, there may be generational differences that present […]
For most of my life, I had no interest in learning about my father. On a stateside leave from the German front in 1944, he had married my mother, impregnated her and returned to the war. He never came back. Until I was in college, all my mother told me about him was that he […]
I HAVE a recurring nightmare in which I have long hair. In the dream, I’ll be doing something mundane, like making coffee, when I notice listless brown strands slithering over my shoulders like anemic garden snakes. Then I’ll touch my head, hyperventilate and, with any luck, wake up. My hair has not extended past my […]
WHY DID the fig ask the raisin out? Because he couldn’t get a date. That joke featured on a Valentine’s Day card I received in elementary school and, oddly, never forgot. But I don’t think I entirely got the joke until recently, when I tasted a Barhi date. It was soft and lusciously sweet, more […]
IF THE ROAD to hell is paved with good intentions, the road back to fitness this summer after a long hiatus from our gym routines is a traffic-clogged freeway through perdition. Some trainers say strains, sprains and inflammation are all more likely as we undertake the business of getting fit again. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS How […]
Menopause changes women’s brains—but many of the changes are temporary, and the brain eventually compensates for some of them, according to new research. In one of the first studies to take an in-depth look at brain changes in healthy women before and after menopause, researchers from Weill Cornell and the University of Arizona found that […]
Sarah Vanunu started a new job three weeks ago at MyHeritage, an online genealogy platform based in Or Yehuda, Israel, and thanks to Israel’s speedy vaccine rollout, she has been eligible for in-person work since she began. But she only goes in on Mondays and Wednesdays and leaves nothing on her assigned desk in between, […]
Marc Vernon, 57, of Naperville, Ill., creator and host of the Car Guys Report podcast, on his 1980 Saab 96 Jubileum, as told to A.J. Baime. I got into Saabs when I was in high school. I just loved the shape of the Saab 96. Some people say that the 96 is the car that […]
Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. The Pentagon Papers—a secret Defense Department review of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War—became public 50 years ago next week. The ensuing Supreme Court case guaranteed the freedom of the press to report government malfeasance, but the U.S. military […]
