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“I don’t know how you do it.” As a working mom of five kids under age 11, this is something I might hear a few times per week. My answer is always simple, and has nothing to do with my parenting skills, “Grandma lives down the street,” I admit. Loading…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessica Stanton. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… On Saturday morning at 2:28 a.m., I had an email from Spirit Airlines informing me that my flight back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had been canceled.I had…
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…
This ‘as-told-to’ essay is based on a conversation with Juli Ford, a 57-year-old real estate agent and certified senior advisor based in Massachusetts. It has been edited for length and clarity.When my children were young, we saw my parents all the time.We lived very close to each other in South…
Maria Colacurcio is used to people asking how she does it all: leading a tech company, parenting seven children, and working out hard enough to compete in elite races. Loading audio narration… Colacurcio, 49, is the CEO of Syndio, a software company helping to leverage AI for pay equity. Since…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rebecca Minkoff, a 45-year-old fashion designer, cofounder of the Female Founder Collective, and former “Real Housewives of New York City” cast member. It has been edited for length and clarity.My public image is, I think, very glamorous. In reality, there’s a…
Over the nine months of pregnancy with my first baby, I mentally prepared myself for those middle-of-the-night feedings (and the resulting exhaustion), the postpartum mood swings, and other inevitable life changes. Loading audio narration… One thing I didn’t prepare myself for? The identity crisis set in as soon as I…
I’m a former first-grade teacher and early childhood literacy specialist. I’ve spent years studying and putting into practice what helps young children learn to read. Loading audio narration… But I’ll admit, now that I have a toddler of my own, it’s incredibly tempting to want to expose him to letters…
Growing up, I wanted to live in every city my family visited on vacation. As an adult, I started to work through that list. Loading audio narration… After college in Virginia, I moved to DC, went to grad school in Wisconsin, and then followed jobs to Denver and New York.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with New Jersey-based Pratik Desai, 34, who vibe coded a tool — which he later refined with advanced coding tools — to help his mother navigate Stage 4 duodenal adenocarcinoma, an advanced cancer affecting the small intestine. His words have been edited…
