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I was only supposed to be in Portland, Oregon, for four months. Eight years later, though, I’m still here.When I first moved to the city at 22, I knew little to nothing about Portland. Although I’d spent time elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest, I’d never even visited Oregon.I was offered…
New York or nowhere. It’s a T-shirt and an Instagram, but it was also my personal motto for most of my young life.I was born in the Bronx, got my first post-college apartment in Queens, spent nearly a decade in a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan, and brought my first baby…
Whenever a new president takes office, the revolving door between the federal government and the private sector starts to spin a little faster. Agency heads, their deputies, and their deputies’ deputies typically exit to make room for the new president’s picks, and take up jobs in C-suites and think tanks.At…
In February 2009, I was on the Eurostar returning to London from a day of meetings in Paris. Somewhere in rural northern France, the train broke down. We were asked to disembark and wait on the platform indefinitely for a replacement.A stranger asked me a question that changed my life.…
