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My late 30s were hard. Living alone in Cape Town, South Africa, I was holding out for a partner and children while my friends moved through weddings and baby showers without me.My parents and sisters (including my twin) lived in another province, freelance writing work was drying up, and as…
I grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, in a town just south of Buffalo, New York. Ice was something we chiseled off a car in winter, not something that’s dropped into a drink. For me, life on a tropical island was a pipe dream.In high school, I was…
Some Western trainers working with Ukrainian soldiers first assumed their trainees were “a bit lazy” when they insisted on moving slowly, a former instructor told Business Insider.But as the British military officer helping lead the training watched them meticulously secure everything and learned why the Ukrainians were doing what they…
When I was younger, a friend invited me to move to Canada for six months to work as a waitress in Banff. I jumped at the opportunity, and within a couple of months, I’d resigned from my job in journalism, sold most of my worldly possessions, and said farewell to…
