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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…
At 38, I faced the toughest decision of my career: whether I wanted to continue working. Loading audio narration… I had been working since I was a teenager and had never considered not doing so.When my husband and I got married, we discussed what our future would look like with…
For years, the question at the office every Monday, as I got coffee, was, “What did you do for fun over the weekend?”This question made me want to crawl under the table. Not because I didn’t love small talk, but because as a young executive juggling a demanding job, two…
In the wake of her mother’s disappearance, Savannah Guthrie said she wrestled with painful questions about whether her mom may have been targeted because of the “Today” show host’s fame.Guthrie, speaking to co-anchor Hoda Kotb in an emotional interview that aired Thursday on the “Today” show, recalled the moment that…
Like many mothers, I often feel as though my family couldn’t survive without me.I have four children who rely on me to make sure there is milk in the refrigerator, to get dinner on the table, and to shuttle them to and from soccer practice. I love my family dearly,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hady Kfoury, the founder and CEO of Naya, a Middle Eastern-inspired food chain. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I created Naya to share the authentic Middle Eastern flavors I grew up with, in a modern and fast-casual way.…
I opened up my annual performance review and gasped. For the first time, I was seeing the words “Successful Contributor” instead of the “Exceptional Contributor” I’d earned the previous two years. Loading audio narration… So what changed? I became a mom.It wasn’t just about the words. It was also that…
