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Critical Role’s chief creative officer and longtime game master, Matthew Mercer, is making a big change at the team’s nerdworld business.When the team’s fourth campaign kicks off on October 2, it won’t be Mercer sitting behind the game master’s screen. Instead, helming the campaign — a long-term staple of Critical…
Some years back, I overheard my then-toddler tell her dolls that she was sorry that she couldn’t talk because she was on a work call.It was something I had said to her more than once before, and my heart sank. That moment stopped me in my tracks and shifted my…
Meg Josephson grew up as a people-pleaser.Raised in a home she describes as volatile, she remembers monitoring her father’s reactions, desperately trying to smooth tensions over.”Being a perfectionist and being kind of always on was very protective for me,” Josephson told Business Insider. “It was the one thing in my…
Every year for the last 30 years, my mom and I have taken the same summer vacation. We stay in the same hotel, eat at the same pizza joint, and ski at the same waterskiing school. It’s like Groundhog Day, but repeating one warm, sunny weekend every August.This tradition began…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Parrie Hartley, 30, who moved from Austin to Barcelona in February 2025. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I’m from a really small town outside of Houston, where there are not a lot of employment opportunities. I’ve always been…
Passenger behavior can be key to preventing injuries, as two recent airline incidents have shown.To be specific, always wear a seatbelt in case of sudden turbulence, and leave your bags behind in an emergency evacuation.On Wednesday, 25 people were injured after a Delta Air Lines plane encountered “significant” turbulence while…
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A few months ago, my procrastination caught up to me as I tried booking a last-minute flight home from Paris back to the US. I’m typically a loyal Delta flyer, but I experienced sticker shock when I saw the prices of its last-minute economy flights back home. So, although I…
I remember sitting on opposite ends of the couch, years into our marriage, barely speaking to each other. We were in therapy, and the couple’s therapist looked at us and said we’d be better off apart. At the time, I believed her.Our marriage had slipped into a quiet disconnection. We…
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