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As a travel writer, I consider myself a vacation expert — which means I like to be in control when planning family trips.However, as the self-appointed trip director, I find the self-inflicted pressure to curate the perfect trip can get overwhelming.For a recent family vacation, though, my father-in-law did the…
My husband is Jewish, American, and from New England. I am a first-generation immigrant from Eastern Europe.I was baptized in Bulgaria and grew up in an Orthodox Christian household, whereas my husband was bar mitzvahed and went to Hebrew school. In other words, we come from completely different cultural and…
In 2024, my husband and I decided we would get a loft extension.We’d been saving and planning for years. Finally, our daughters —ages 8, 10, 12, and 15 — would have their own bedrooms in our London home.But there was a small issue: We could only afford to proceed with…
