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Phyllis Cavone, 76, and her 75-year-old husband are raising their three teenage grandsons.The retired dental assistant and police officer have cared for them since they were babies.Cavone said it’s been “challenging” as everyone got older — but they wouldn’t have it any other way.This as-told-to essay is based on a…
Matthew Lillard had his biggest payday ever for “Scooby-Doo 2,” but the movie flopped.The movie’s reception altered the trajectory of his career and prompted him to do a total reset.Lillard is still acting but is now also an entrepreneur with his own spirits company. In the mid-2000s, Matthew Lillard’s career…
I grew up in the Bible Belt, thinking that men were supposed to initiate romantic relationships.I felt weird about making the first move when I met my future husband in college.Now, I realize that we need to write our own stories when it comes to dating and life in general.…
Lisa Marie Presley wrote about how her dad Elvis Presley’s death affected her in her posthumous memoir.”My life as I knew it was completely over,” she said.As an adult, Lisa Marie had an opioid addiction and sought comfort in Elvis’ room in Graceland. Lisa Marie Presley wrote in her posthumous…
Last spring, my friends and I accidentally rented an electric car on a trip to Italy. The rental had a learning curve. We charged at slow stations and spent hours in unplanned towns. These unplanned moments became a highlight of our trip, and we fell in love with our EV…
OpenAI needs better product names. Even its products think so.The company introduced its latest model on Thursday, which it calls OpenAI o1. It has “enhanced reasoning capabilities” and was trained to spend more time thinking before responding, much like humans.Despite its popularity, OpenAI is renowned for its uninspiring code-like product…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Blake Haxton. It has been edited for length and clarity.This Friday — five days after smiling on the podium at the Paris Paralympics — I’ll be back at work, crunching numbers behind a desk in Ohio.It hasn’t really sunk in yet.…
Watching Carol Kane onscreen, it’s impossible not to notice her eyes.It’s the same in person. Kane’s eyes widen when she talks about what it was like to work with her dear friend Jack Nicholson in two of her earliest film roles, reuniting with her “Taxi” costars via regularly scheduled Zoom…
In March 2023, William Gordon received a letter in the mail from his title company congratulating him on the $200,000 sale of his Tucson, Arizona, property. The catch: He’d never listed it for sale.Gordon noticed almost immediately that the congratulatory letter was off.”I noticed the last four digits of the…
When I was in 7th grade, one of our classes was tasked with putting together what essentially amounted to vision boards for the rest of our lives. We spent a few days cutting photos out of magazines and gluing them into albums as if any of us really knew anything…
