Important milestones are usually celebrated with loved ones, but this year, for my birthday, I decided to take a bucket-list trip to Hong Kong and Japan — on my own. Originally, I’d planned to celebrate at a rooftop bar with friends, but this trip has been on my mind for years. Instead, I cancelled my
Three years ago, when I met someone 21 years my junior in an online class, I never thought we’d become close. Each week in a writing class, we filled the video call with highly personal details about our lives as we learned how to tell our stories. We spilled our emotions in front of dozens
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Law Roach is careful not to let client relationships get too personal. Speaking on SiriusXM on Saturday, the celebrity stylist said he tries to keep clear boundaries with the people he works for. “I always had a rule not to become friends with clients,” Roach said. He described his relationship with Zendaya as the exception,
My husband looked at the towels spread across our back porch. “Why paper making?” My 13-year-old didn’t even hesitate. “Paper is so cheap,” he said. I had spent nearly two hours on my knees on the hot concrete, scooping watery paper pulp into a frame, sponging out the excess water, and laying each fragile sheet
In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC — a scenario that would have left a lot