Begench Melayev spent ten years building businesses that did not work out. He sold his share of a franchise too early. He moved his wife and three children to Sri Lanka for a slower life and a startup he planned to run from a distance, and within a year the savings were gone. For a […]

For years, I unknowingly repeated a painful pattern, searching for love, validation, and worth in relationships that slowly diminished my sense of self. From my father, to my marriage, to later relationships, I found myself trapped in the cycle of narcissistic abuse and emotional survival that had quietly shaped generations before me. This memoir is […]

A man talked his wife and four children into walking from Canada to Mexico. Then he had to keep talking, and walking. In 2018, Vince and Monica Strawbridge walked the Pacific Crest Trail southbound with their four kids: Aiden, sixteen; June, fourteen; Henry, thirteen; and Georgie, eleven. 2,650 miles. 142 days on foot. It’s about […]