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It’s the first long weekend of the summer, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by firing up a grill.Ahead of Memorial Day weekend, we asked three private chefs how to manage stress when hosting cookouts or barbecues during summer holidays.”Nothing really brings people closer together than some great…
This story is based on an interview with Barbara Phillips, 75, a former tech writer who splits her time between Seattle and Saxony, Germany. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In March 2025, I was recovering from a serious complication to my second hip replacement…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jillian Kurovski, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student living in South Korea for a year. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I was doing spider research in Guam when I got an email saying that my birth mother…
Before I graduated from college, I feared I’d have no breathing room and would have to jump right into the workforce. Instead, I had to face something even worse: the prospects of no entry-level jobs on the market. Loading audio narration… After graduating in 2024 and having no set work…
I’m writing this for anyone under the spell of the digital nomad highlight reel, and for my younger self, who confused suffering with adventure. This is the story of when I stopped asking, “Where should I go next?” and started asking, “What do I need to thrive?” Loading audio narration……
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Julie Zhu, a China market strategist for global creators based in Shenzhen. She has helped creators like Khaby Lame and Pamela Reif tour the country. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In the pandemic, we had a…
I was sitting in my cargo bike outside my son’s børnehave (kindergarten) on an especially bitter February morning in Copenhagen, crying over forgetting his Fastelavn costume at home. Loading audio narration… Fastelavn, for the uninitiated, is Denmark’s candy-filled, costume-wearing, barrel-smashing children’s tradition, somewhere between Halloween and Carnival. It’s something Danes…
When I first moved from Poland to Austin, Texas, for a short-term internship in my mid-20s, I never intended to stay. Loading audio narration… As a new graduate, my goal was to get some hands-on experience in international business practices before returning home to work with my dad and teach…
When I retired early, I assumed the hard part was over. Loading audio narration… No more meetings. No more deadlines imposed by someone else. My husband and I began traveling in long arcs, staying at least a month in each place. We would unpack, settle in, and let daily life…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Karen Watts Nauman, 67, and Jeff Nauman, 69, a married couple who moved to Lake Chapala, Mexico, from the US a few years ago. They recently launched The AI Boomers, a platform for AI courses designed for older Americans. This interview…
