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For years, my life ran on a nonstop loop of various sporting events, travel to tournaments, and coordinating team dinners. My son and daughter both played travel sports. I was usually the team manager, organizing hotels, carpools, and group texts. Our weekends were booked for years. My house was the…
I never would have imagined that my closest adult friendships would form in school corridors. But over the last few years, the mothers of my son’s friends have become the people I turn to first. I turn to them for help, for company, and even for perspective.I didn’t seek them…
When Matthew Straight and April Pasilang lived in Cebu City, the oldest city in the Philippines, the constant hum of traffic made it hard to slow down.”We didn’t really ever get to open a window. It was always closed,” Straight, 46, told Business Insider.Straight, who grew up in New Zealand,…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of “The Black Swan” and “Antifragile,” has advice for navigating this period of economic instability, geopolitical upset, and technological upheaval: Stick to what you believe in, future-proof yourself against AI, exercise your mind and body, and have a holistic view of success.The scholar, statistician, and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Buz Moffett, 63, who moved from Hawaii to Pohnpei, an island in the Pacific Ocean that’s part of the Federated States of Micronesia, with his wife in 2018. It has been edited for length and clarity.The first time I visited Pohnpei…
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From the time I started playing with dolls, I wanted to have babies of my own. By the time I was 15, I knew I wanted to be a young mom. I told myself that if I didn’t have babies by the age of 25, I wouldn’t have children.When I…
Julie Wilburn, 53, never anticipated that, over a decade after moving from Maryland to Morocco, she would be running her own school.That’s now her reality.”I started with four kids out of my own house, and then I just started building a little school, and now it’s been 13 years and…
“Simon! Lara!” shouted Bill the bartender as we entered the town brewery. “You know anyone who wants a free 40-foot boat?”Simon, my husband, began frantically shaking his head no. The adage in the boating community is that there’s nothing as expensive as a free boat, but I asked Bill to…
Last summer, I was a year out of college and living in Nashville, with no idea where to go next.Most of my friends were headed to New York City, with a few straying from the norm by going to other big cities, like Denver or Dallas. I, however, veered entirely…
