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My outdoorsy husband didn’t want to take a baby and a toddler camping. I insisted — and regretted it by 2 a.m.
The first sign that our family camping trip was a bad idea was that my husband and I were fighting. Although he was a rugged outdoorsman who took frequent solo kayaking expeditions in the wilderness, he hated dragging our two kids into the woods in the peak of summer heat and mosquito season. I…
I’m a KPMG forward-deployed engineer. AI has moved my job beyond writing code.
This is a conversation with Justin Johnsen, the lead technical architect at KPMG. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. I joined KPMG six years ago, and I’ve been a forward-deployed engineer for about a year, working across different clients. When I started with KPMG as a…
I paid $45,000 upfront to rent this Bali home for 10 years. Here’s what it cost me to retire there.
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation for our Cost of Living video series with Debbie Welsch, 57, an American who retired to Bali with her 82-year-old mother. It has been edited for length and clarity. My 10-year lease for my 1,100-square-foot house in Bali is $4,500 a year — that is…
Aaron Sorkin says Sony hired outside lawyers to fact-check ‘The Social Reckoning’ because Meta has ‘limitless resources’
Sony left no legal stone unturned for its new film about Mark Zuckerberg, lest it face the wrath of Meta’s legal team. During an appearance on The New York Times podcast, “The Interview,” director Aaron Sorkin said getting the green light to pursue “The Social Reckoning” wasn’t a “no-brainer.” “You…
I’ve spoken to my daughter in a non-native language since she was a baby. Now she corrects my French.
My daughter was born three months before the COVID-19 restrictions began where we live. Stuck at home with a new baby, I needed something to keep me busy, and I’m too mishap-prone for sourdough. For a linguist like me, a language-related project seemed like just the thing. I decided to dust off my…
After my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer at 45, we changed our family diet. Here’s what we eat — and don’t eat — now.
When my husband, a doctor, went in for his first routine colonoscopy at 45 years old, he said nonchalantly, “I’ll be done by noon. Then we can grab lunch.” He recommends that his patients be screened on time, so he was simply following his own advice. He had no symptoms suggesting anything was…
12 game-day foods you can make in a slow cooker or Crock-Pot
You don't have to spend every Sunday sweating over a hot stove to serve favorites like Buffalo Chicken dip, ribs, or hot wings. Sarah Olson/The Magical Slow Cooker A slow cooker or Crock-Pot can come in handy when prepping food for game day. They can help whip up game-day appetizers from dips to…
Exhausted from years of big-city hustle, I moved to an idyllic mountain town in Colorado. It wasn’t so idyllic for me.
At 34, after years of climbing the ranks of a Wall Street law firm, I was burned out and deeply disconnected from the natural world. Unsure of where I wanted to live, after leaving my job, I spent a year camping in the American West. During that trip, I visited Telluride, Colorado, and was…
Get ready for higher holiday airfares as airlines cut flights over high fuel costs
If you haven’t booked your holiday flights yet, you may want to brace your wallet: Airlines are cutting options and potentially raising fares as oil prices reach new highs. After surging in the spring following the start of the war in Iran, oil prices surged yet again this summer and surpassed $100…
My 3 kids are all enrolled at the same college. Knowing they’re together helps, but I’m still struggling with my empty nest.
When I tell people that my youngest daughter is attending the same college as her older twin siblings, I always hear some variation of these questions: Did they always want to go to the same college? Are you happy you only need to do one drop-off? Are you getting a buy 2 get 1 free