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Walking by the holiday decorations, I see the lights. It’s hard to miss them since they’re everywhere — blinking from plastic trees and dangling from the ceiling. It’s undoubtedly a well-lit wonderland, but I don’t stop to look. That is, I can’t stop.The colored lights are an instant reminder of…
Inside some of the Air Force’s oldest refueling aircraft, technicians are crawling through tight, dirty spaces, painstakingly cleaning sealant on fuel tanks and tightening loose rivets.They climb into the dark, cramped tanks with little more than a flashlight, some tools, and shaky comms. It can be hard to breathe, the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Audrey Serna, 33, who dropped out of college after two semesters. It has been edited for length and clarity.It was a horrible feeling to drop out of college when all of my peers chose that route. But I wouldn’t have done…
When my wife and I moved from Calgary to Nelson, British Columbia, in 2017, we thought we knew what we were signing up for. We wanted a slower pace, more nature, and a place where our kids could grow up with freedom and space to explore. What we didn’t fully…
“You’ll deal with it when I’m dead,” our mom said whenever my sister or I wanted to help clean up any mess in her life, whether it be the kitchen cabinets or financial entanglements. Her stubbornness irked me, but I didn’t have the heart to argue.When she was 85, and…
