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- Paddling down memory lane: Our big fish story
The dip and plunk of paddles, the ripples on the lake. For Dad and me, fishing is a beloved family ritual. Our biggest catch? Time spent together.
- Mrs. Tippet’s school of life: The teacher who made me fall in love with writing
With her gold-tipped fountain pen, fanciful flourishes, and after-recess story times, my fifth grade teacher indelibly shaped my career – and life.
- A bittersweet farewell: I’m a New Yorker, but Mississippi has my heart
When a born-and-bred New Yorker prepares to move back to the big city, he discovers that Mississippi has made itself at home in his heart.
- As summer wanes, I'm chasing flickers of nostalgia by the campfire
I yearned for my childhood summers by the lake. With my son, I have a chance to revisit that enchantment.
- Hot crabs and cold lemonade: A window into my Cajun childhood
Family dinners are a powerful means of connection, anchoring, and belonging. For our writer, Cajun country crab nights brought a sense of kinship.
- How a juicy Dixon watermelon helped me conjure carefree childhood summers
Proust had his madeleine. I had a juicy red watermelon to transport me to beloved summers past.
- The great garden glut of 2024: How I survived the summer of 10,000 beans.
In the garden, there’s only one thing that multiplies faster than rabbits. Read on – I’m spilling the beans.
- How surfing helped me conquer corporate burnout
Used to playing the expert, a corporate strategist trades her pantsuit for a wetsuit, starts surfing, and learns that being a novice is exhilarating.
- What traveling without a plan taught me about serendipity
Traveling without a plan or guidebook may seem radical. It’s my way of preserving the serendipity and romance of adventure.
- I plead quilty: Why I inflicted a madcap, modern spin on an old-fashioned art
In an era of mass consumption, our writer reminds us of the forgotten art of creating something from scratch.
- A ‘Walden’ way of seeing the world: How I found calm in Thoreau’s words
During anxious times, I found inspiration in Thoreau’s classic “Walden.” Here are my four mindfulness takeaways.
- My first job kindled heartache – and hard lessons
As I discovered during my first job at the tender age of 12, the old adage is true: Experience really is the best teacher.
- An invitation to celebrate, console, connect – it’s tea-o’clock
What’s lost in a society that prizes productivity? The sweetest moments are found when we slow down and take time for tea.
- My summertime rite of passage? Picking buckets of berries (with bears).
Summers past were reserved for picking berries with bears, a snapshot of central Pennsylvania summer idyll.
- His own party calls him traitor. Can Japan’s new PM rebuild trust in politics?
- Vance shows polish, Walz hits him on Jan. 6 in notably civil VP debate
- Ten years after 43 students disappeared, Mexican parents still seek the truth
- Once ‘extinct’ in Canada, the Sinixt people are reclaiming their ancestral home
- What a Tunisian exodus says about the future of global migration