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We were somewhere between a dusty diner’s parking lot and an old ghost town when I started passing my bright list of ideas around the backseat. “Everyone choose something you want to do! Our first act of kindness is coming up!” I gleefully said.My family of five was on what…
My husband has always joked about getting a pool someday, and while that’s a lovely dream, I viewed it as just that.However, during the early days of the pandemic everyone was buying pools of all varieties for at-home entertainment. We were a little late to the (pool) party, but we…
I got married for the first time the day after I turned 18. A year later, my first child was born; I was just 19 years old.The next few years would bring two more children, along with the responsibilities and costs of raising a family in the US. My first…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sacha Warren from Surrey, England. Warren’s financials have been verified by Business Insider. It has been edited for length and clarity.I bought my house in Epsom, a town outside London, in 2001. It has a huge garden, and I knew I’d…
I was conducting an interview over Zoom recently when my teenage daughter called me twice in a row. Worried that something was wrong, I texted her, “In a meeting, emergency?” to which she replied, “No, just a good table on the side of the road.” This cracked me up and…
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I grew up with my grandparents — they raised my brother and me when our parents couldn’t. My grandfather was plagued with health issues throughout his life, almost dying from hydrocephalus when he was a kid. He had a dent in his head and a hole in his finger. These…
Despite visiting Sydney every year or two, I realized I had almost nothing to offer when a friend recently asked for travel recommendations.She wanted to know the best beaches, must-visit restaurants, and activities for her 4-year-old, but when I’m there, I’m not actually sightseeing.Instead, I’m tucked away in a suburb…
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About 10 years ago, David Furman realized something had to change.As a postdoc at Stanford University in 2016, he studied how inflammation and aging are tightly wound together. His life was “pretty stressful,” he said, and he feared his body might be aging in hyperdrive.He could feel it, too. Furman had migraines…
