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After weeks of chatting on Tinder, my now-husband and I decided to meet in person. Days before our date, he texted me to ask if I was into baseball. I told him I had no idea about the sport, but I’d watch a game with him. That was 12 years…
For the last eight years, our Subaru Outback has stepped up to the challenge of taking my family of five, plus two dogs, everywhere we go.We call it the “kid car” because it can handle anything, including flying snacks in the back seat. But as my kids grow, we need…
The day before the New York Knicks took over Lower Manhattan to celebrate their historic NBA championship, a Business Insider staffer stumbled upon a heartwarmingly desperate Facebook post.A son was begging for a spot high above the predicted crowd of millions to watch the parade with his 88-year-old father, who…
When I first suggested a “kids’ dinner” with our upstairs neighbor, I was mainly thinking about getting a night off. Feeding my three kids (ages 4, 6, and 10) can feel endless — just when I think I’ve found a meal that works, one of them suddenly refuses to eat…
From the time my sons were old enough to sit in a high chair and eat mashed sweet potatoes, our family of four ate dinner together. For a long time, that meant my husband and I shifted our schedules and ate much earlier than we ever had before kids. There…
It’s 4 a.m., and Whitney Stefko Dover’s family “chief of staff” has already sent her the daily briefing.It’s called the “Daily Dover.”The early morning operations briefing helps Stefko Dover and her husband, Chris, coordinate their complicated lives with two young sons. An AI assistant scans their emails and calendar apps…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jacqueline Matwick, 38, who moved from Arizona to Turin, Italy, with her family in 2024. Matwick was anticipating receiving citizenship by descent through her husband, but the Italian government changed the requirements after they moved, and the Matwicks no longer qualified.…
Shortly after college, my then-boyfriend (now husband) and I moved several states away. We had both grown up and lived our entire lives up until that point in the Northeast, he in New York and me in Connecticut. But now, in our early 20s, we wanted a change. When he…
I’ve moved my family across three countries, from Australia to Switzerland to the United States, and before each move, I romanticized what starting over would look like.I imagined charming cafés, weekend adventures, and eventually finding a like-minded new community.What I didn’t anticipate was that making friends would be one of…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jill Gardner, family president at the Laird Norton Company. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I married my husband, Doug, I also married into his family business. My husband and his cousins are the fifth generation of his family…
