I didn’t expect to start my adult life so young, but that’s where I found myself when my parents kicked me out of their house at 17. I learned how cruel life can be by living in a homeless shelter for a year. I cried myself to sleep almost every night and realized that the
My dad is one of the smartest people I have ever met. He was known as a talented poet and speaker at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia. But during this time, Colonel Hugo Banzer established a military dictatorship and, in the midst of political repression against students, left for Madrid
It was the era of heroin chic. When iconic supermodel Kate Moss was at the peak of her modeling career in the 1990s, she was often photographed in clubs with a cigarette, a far cry from today’s trends of Pilates and matcha lattes. So when actress Ellie Bamber came to play Moss in the recently
Business class plane tickets were already booked to fly around the world for my husband’s 50th birthday. Then he threw me a curveball: an African safari was also on his bucket list. He wanted to fulfill his wish considering the limitations of money and time. After all, when I heard “African safari,” all I could
If you had asked me five years ago if I would spend part of the morning checking on tomato plants or celebrating the first strawberry of the season, I would have laughed. Between raising two daughters with my husband and running two businesses, my days are carefully orchestrated. My calendar is full of client meetings,
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