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Some airlines are waiving change fees for passengers affected by hourslong waits at airport security.Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Allegiant have issued advisories giving travelers more flexibility during the ongoing travel chaos.Due to a partial government shutdown, TSA agents have been working without pay since February 14. As a…
Until recently, if you had mentioned multigenerational living to me, I wouldn’t have assumed you were talking about my mom and me. After all, we haven’t lived under the same roof for nearly 20 years. Loading audio narration… In the 20 years since I last lived with Mom, I’ve gotten…
Nearly a decade ago, real estate developer Chad Dale made a purchase that changed the way he thought about how people live together.Dale and a small group of his friends had decided to pool their money to purchase a vacation home on Whidbey Island, about an hour from Seattle. With…
The author (in yellow) with her new set of friends at a bar in Connecticut.Courtesy of Dean SmithTwo of my best friends recently told me they were moving hundreds of miles out of state.I felt depressed because I thought it would be hard to make new friendships as a Gen…
You can call me a dork, but working in public radio was my dream as a teenager — and the hours I spent mapping out my career path and building up my résumé paid off by the time I was an adult.After graduating from college in 2019, I interned at…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Greg Kitzmiller, a 64-year-old American retiree living in Panama. It has been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in Michigan, where I met my wife, Jen, and where we built our life together.In 2016, I retired from my…
My whole life, it felt like I was promised that if I got an undergraduate degree from a great university, I would get a good job and build a stable life for myself. Reality has been a lot messier.In May 2024, I graduated from New York University with a degree…
When a company moves its headquarters, it’s making a statement — whether leadership spells it out or not.That’s the case with Palantir’s surprise announcement Tuesday that it has relocated its home base to Florida from Colorado.The defense-tech contractor disclosed the change in a one-sentence press release citing a new address…
I’d been on the island for less than a week when I opened my glove box looking for sunglasses, only to find the wrapper of my emergency granola bar torn open and the corner nibbled, right next to a neat little pile of mouse droppings.As I inspected the rest of…
On a recent trip, my daughter and I were tossing her stuffed animal around the hotel room. The toy spun around near the ceiling and came to rest on the corner of the TV, high above our heads.My daughter pointed and tried to explain where the animal landed, on the,…
