Julie Lasky

Five years ago, Nicole Tirapelli moved to Nantucket with her two young children. She had visited the Massachusetts island, with its quaint, maritime vibe, several times as a tourist and fantasized about living there though she was not particularly nautical. Trained as a chef and the onetime owner of a wedding cake bakery, she spent

Five years after Covid-19 first upended our lives, Florent Breton’s story is something of a cliché. A French-born sales manager for Victorinox, the company best known for producing the Swiss Army knife, he was among the thousands, maybe millions, of people who turned a corner in the pandemic and adopted a new career.Mr. Breton’s sales