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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Felisha Case, a former technical program manager at LinkedIn who was laid off in May. She’s 40 and lives in the Denver area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.A week before I was laid off from LinkedIn, a…
It started with a Facebook ad in late April.Eighty-five-year-old Larry Aaronson responded on the first day. When I called, he said immediately that he was in the hospital, that he had “about a year to live”, and that he wanted me to produce a video for his memorial service.My business,…
“I miss him so much,” I sobbed into the phone. “I don’t know if I can do this.” I was surprised my sister could understand me through the tears, but she’d always been good at decoding my words — and what was behind them. I’d been away from home for…
On our two-week vacation to Portugal, my husband and I planned a fairy-tale day trip to the town of Sintra, less than an hour northwest of Lisbon. Known as the first center of European Romantic architecture, Sintra is home to a stunning palace, the remnants of an ancient castle wall,…
For months, I’d been looking forward to my five-week solo trip to Mexico, where I’d be housesitting in a beautiful oceanfront home in La Paz.I expected I’d have a relaxing stay, and I was especially eager to learn more about the area and its local culture to see if I…
The corpsman strapped his patient onto the litter as the sound of swirling helicopter blades roared from a watchful instructor’s hand-held speaker. Double-checking his IVs were secure, he and a stretcher team hoisted up their casualty and sprinted toward the landing zone amid flying debris from the helo’s rotor wash…
