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I went to Chili’s and saw why the chain is competing with fast-food joints like McDonald’s
Chili’s is hot. The restaurant chain continues to reap the rewards of its turnaround: Same-store sales grew 6% during the company’s fourth quarter, parent company Brinker International reported on Wednesday. That marks the 21st consecutive quarter that Chili’s reported same-store sales growth…
A top cancer doctor shares 4 bare minimum food rules to lower your chronic disease risk
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wants you to stop obsessing over your health data and enjoy a treat from time to time. I experienced this firsthand when I met him for ice cream on a sunny Thursday afternoon in June to discuss his latest book on healthy living. A specialty ice cream shop in London had formulated
I tried Ina Garten’s penne alla vodka. It’s one of the best pasta dishes I’ve ever made.
The sauce is so creamy and smooth without being heavy and overwhelming. Slowly roasting the tomato sauce in the oven added depth and complexity to the vodka sauce, which I actually loved even more than my favorite from Jon & Vinny’s. My only wish was that I had made some of Garten’s “outrageous”…
My husband had hobbies. My kids had activities. Somehow, I only had laundry.
My husband looked at the towels spread across our back porch. “Why paper making?” My 13-year-old didn’t even hesitate. “Paper is so cheap,” he said. I had spent nearly two hours on my knees on the hot concrete, scooping watery paper pulp into a frame, sponging out the excess water, and laying each…
Tech workers may be better off selling their company stock
One of the oldest rules in tech pay still looks like one of the smartest. Levels.fyi, a company that tracks compensation across the industry, recently analyzed what would have happened to the same senior Microsoft software engineer pay package in two scenarios. In one, the employee sold their stock…
I loved living on Miami Beach — but after 3 years, I knew I had to leave
As a kid growing up in West Virginia, living in Florida felt like a sunshine-filled dream. So when I finally secured a job down here after graduating from college in 2017, I was ready to move. Over the years, I’ve lived in various neighborhoods throughout Miami-Dade County. I spent a few months in…
We moved abroad when our kids were 5 and 7. Keeping them close to their grandparents became a priority.
We had just moved to New Jersey when we learned that we would have to move to London for my husband’s job. Our children, aged 5 and 7, were the much-adored only grandchildren of my in-laws, who were retired and living in Texas. Our kids were also close with my mom and her partner, who
Everything we know about how biggest Wall Street banks are using AI
The nation’s biggest bank is putting a lot of effort toward making sure it’s an early mover in AI, with the help of a nearly $20 billion annual technology budget. Dimon has previously said he’s out to win the AI arms race, and he thinks JPMorgan’s $2 billion AI investment has already matched its…
My husband and I are about to be empty nesters. To reconnect, we took a trip together, but it was awkward at first.
It felt like the absolute worst time to take a trip. Our son was home from college for the summer, our oldest daughter had just gotten married, and our youngest daughter had graduated from high school and was preparing to leave for college in late August. Everything in me wanted to soak up every…
I stared deep into the heart of LinkedIn AI cringe slop. Darkness (and engagement) stared back.
They say to be cringe is to be free. And on LinkedIn, I needed a taste of freedom. Which is why I fully embraced using Cringebot 3000, a website that creates purposely grating AI-generated slop for you to post to LinkedIn. Why on Earth would you want that? That’s the wrong question. The better one