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I grew up in Los Angeles — Studio City, to be exact. My father was the chief audio engineer at NBC Burbank for 38 years. I met the stars he put on the air — Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, and Johnny Carson. I even sat in Tony Martin’s lap in…

In February, I was laid off from The Washington Post when my entire team in Seoul was cut. More than 300 journalists lost their jobs in a single day. Loading audio narration… About two years ago, my family and I moved to South Korea from Colorado after I was offered…

When my husband and I decided to move our four-person family from the US to Spain, we had roughly two semesters of college Spanish between us and zero experience living abroad. Loading audio narration… We didn’t let that stop us, though. Beginning in March 2025, we researched obsessively, read books,…