Anyone who travels frequently and wants to maintain some semblance of style knows how challenging it is to pack without a) grossly overpacking or b) dreading opening your suitcase to the same five or six items you’ve already worn to death. Enter Encircled, a collection of uniquely versatile everyday wardrobe essentials and multiway travel…

  In some parts of the country—namely Kansas City, Memphis, South Carolina, and pretty much anywhere in Texas—barbecue isn’t just a tasty cuisine, it’s also a spectator sport. Festivals are planned and thousands gather to watch the most dedicated to their grilling craft compete for bragging rights, and sample the delicious results. So while Berkshire…

  I’m the type of person who enjoys the company of animals as much as that of humans . . . sometimes even more so. I work out of a home office, usually with a pet on my lap, and I often wake up in the middle of the night, unable to turn over because…

  I’m always looking for ways to piggyback vacation days onto business trips and speaking gigs, but sometimes the locations of business functions are something less than vacation-worthy. But when the organizers of the Women in Travel Summit announced that the 2018 conference would be in Quebec City, I knew I had a destination worthy of…

  My quest to replicate favorite restaurant dishes has been, well, let’s just say not always successful. There’s usually some indescribable something missing, a close-but-no-cigar rendering of what my tastebuds crave. But once in a long while, my wing-it kitchen experiments manage to outdo the original. Such is the case with this recipe for Vegan…

    “I would have to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living,” writes Paul Kalanithi in the 2015 Pulitzer-shortlisted When Breath Becomes Air. As short and memorable as his own life, Kalanithi’s memoir is…

        When Alice Finn watched the 2016 financial thriller Equity, she was struck by a scene at a professional women’s mentoring meeting. Main character Naomi is asked, “What’s that thing that really makes you want to get up in the morning?” She replies, “I like money.” While Naomi goes on to explain…

    The positive aspects of working from a home office are many: You can start and finish the day whenever you want. You can take a walk, break, or nap at any time, and don’t have to check in with anyone. Don’t feel like getting out of your sweatpants? Don’t bother. There are fewer…

      Workshop leader, manuscript coach, and author Dara Lurie has an uncanny sense for the topical, even when she’s exploring themes that are deeply personal to her, like interracial identity, body image, and addiction. A graduate of Vassar College and Hunter College, she has worked as a legal assistant, a bartender, an actor,…

  I just came back from a conference in California where a significant number of the speakers and attendees were influencers or aspiring influencers—people with many thousands, sometimes many hundreds of thousands—of followers on social media, and who often make a living through paid “collaborations.” Although I was speaking at the conference (for a second…