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Essays on place, taste, and lived experience.
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Your Point of View
One answer from Phylicia Rashad, and what it made me admit about fear, time, and the dream I have kept at arm’s length.
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Maybe the Grit Is the Point
Marseille doesn’t soften its edges for visitors. Beneath the grit is Provence in its truest form, and a city that knows exactly what it has.
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Switzerland, Idyllic
Switzerland makes an almost impossibly idyllic backdrop for family time. I decided it was not entirely my kind of place - and I understood why in the same breath.
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What We Have Time For
A summer spent choosing family over the churn — and the embarrassingly simple thing I understood between the meals, the stories, and the long afternoons.
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The Things We Cheer For
On one Saturday I moved between Brazil, Haiti, and New York — and felt both what sport still gives us and what the country hosting it withholds.
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