PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Drive through any neighborhood in South Florida and you’re likely to see a roofing project underway. However, a foam shortage has many of these projects stuck in a standstill.

It’s still the middle of summer, but fall will be here before we know it—and that makes now the perfect time to start on easy DIY projects like these fabric-covered pumpkins. They’re a simple, no-glue ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...