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In a previous life, I was a ratty, vagabond mountain girl. I never thought of myself as a writer, and I definitely didn’t plan to build a career as a ghostwriter. I rarely planned where I’d sleep each night.During a gap year from college in winter 2020, I was working…
George Chryssanthou and his partner of 25 years, Electra Friedman, were hoping to move to Greece when Friedman retired after a long career as an art educator. Loading audio narration… Eighty-year-old Chryssanthou spent his teenage years in the country, while 83-year-old Friedman was born there. The plan was to use…
True Religion had to recognize some hard truths in order to turn its brand around. Loading audio narration… When Michael Buckley returned to True Religion as CEO in 2019, he inherited a company that was struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Since then, he’s helped turn things around — doubling sales…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mark Seguin, who was surprise-diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago at age 35. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ll never know for sure why I got colon cancer at age 35.Sure, I can look back now and point to…
I’ll be straight with you: My house is tiny. Charming, yes, but with two adults, two large dogs, and the hope of a future child, “cozy” had started to feel more like “cramped.”Add in our wonderfully loud, frequently visiting families, and it became clear that my hybrid home-office-second-bedroom wasn’t actually…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aoi Onodera, 34, which took place at Aoito, the café he manages in Zushi, Japan. His words have been translated and edited for length and clarity.I grew up visiting this house. It originally belonged to my grandfather’s older sister, and whenever…
