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Life Lessons

This is ugly

I recently took two road trips—one through Portugal’s countryside and the other across rural Oregon.

In Portugal, every turn revealed charming historic villages and vineyards that looked like they belonged in a painting.

The art of standing out

Growing up in Istanbul, Carl Sagan was one of my childhood heroes.

He would speak to me through the original Cosmos series. I didn’t speak a word of English, so I wasn’t quite sure what he was saying. But I listened anyway.

Why your office needs a new name

There’s a room in our home that I’ve called my “home office” since we first moved in.

I had no good reason for the name—other than an “office” is what people conventionally call a room where work gets done.

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