Lately, we’ve been looking to the past for ways to deal with the present. Those of us who were too busy for family meals pre-coronavirus are now cooking at home more than ever. We’re scheduling long, leisurely phone calls; we’re writing letters (with a pen and paper and everything!); we’re planting our own gardens, even in New York (my colleague Steff Yotka set hers up on the fire escape). There’s something comforting about these slower, deliberately low-tech habits, perhaps because they help us feel connected to the past. These are things our parents and grandparents did—and the activities feel a lot more stimulating than a mindless Instagram scroll.

Hollywood power couple Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas have made some adjustments to their New York real estate portfolio with the purchase of one mansion and the sale of another.