Where I’ve been and of course the “Bucket List”
Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month, personal finance expert Paco de Leon will answer your most difficult, emotionally charged questions about money. This year has forced many of us to […]
Thanks to Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying and undisputed queen of organisation, decluttering our homes and wardrobes had never been so popular – that was until the pandemic hit. We had the double whammy of managing the stresses of modern life while barely being able to […]
Credit: Anwar Hussein / Getty Following their decision to step away from royal life, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have relocated to the US and settled in the quiet seaside town of Montecito, California. The couple are expecting their second child, a baby girl, later this year, and during an […]
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To some, Tessica Brown’s perma-sleek mistake was just another punchline that launched a million Gorilla Glue Girl memes, but the fact that a Black woman was struggling with at-home hairstyling during a pandemic wasn’t a simple joke. It was a viral example of the creative ways in which Black women […]
In the hours before the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved in the US for emergency use, I was on the phone with epidemiologists and medical experts who were detailing the expected advantages to widespread vaccination: There’d be fewer deaths, and fewer severe cases of COVID-19, so hospitals wouldn’t be so […]
Today Sadiq Khan, who is currently running to be re-elected as mayor of London on 6th May, visited a pharmacy in east London’s Newham. That pharmacy was more than it seemed: staff inside are trained to provide a safe space for people experiencing or at risk of domestic violence. If […]
A new HIV vaccine, based on the Moderna COVID-19 inoculation, has shown a 97% antibody response rate in Phase I clinical trials. Currently, HIV affects more than 38 million people globally. If approved, this vaccine could become the first stage of a multi-step strategy to combat HIV and other viral […]
Defining life moments can be the best times to change your look. Wendy Van, the star of Hair Me Out’s latest episode, just became a new mum and needed a fresh style to match. “My newborn’s been pulling on my hair a lot, and I know I’m going to have some postpartum […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by D Ô E N (@shopdoen) While it’s still too early to determine which dress will go viral and acquire a precursory ‘the’ this season – becoming The Dress of summer 2021, if you will – in a corner of the internet […]
