Mission Everywhere

Although I have some expensive regrets, I am ultimately glad I moved my family from Australia to New York City many years ago. Courtesy of Natasha Silva-Jelly I grew up in Australia and always dreamed of living in New York City , so I moved my family there. Living here comes with costs, like missing family in Australia and being unable to visit them often. We've spent a ton on rent, and I've moved around the city a lot, but there's no place I'd rather be. It was my lifelong dream to live in New York City . Wild, given that I was born in a small rural town in Australia, where I grew up riding dirt bikes, not reading fashion magazines. The Land Down Under was a big, beautiful place offering an idyllic, laid-back beach life, but I always felt a pull toward The Big Apple. That lust further ignited in the '90s as I watched the city depicted in shows like "Friends" and "Sex and the City." So in 2014, on the cusp of turning 40, I dragged my husband, our...

The author wanted to leave her hometown as a child. Courtesy of the author I grew up thinking my small hometown was boring and couldn't wait to leave. Housing costs eventually brought my partner and me back when we wanted to buy. Now I appreciate the family support and community I couldn't see as a teenager. I didn't think parking spaces would have a particularly big impact on my life, but ultimately, it was the thought of not having to parallel park on the street every day that made me realize I was going to move back to the town I grew up in. My partner and I were trying to buy our first home together and hoped to stay in Oxford, the city where we had lived for the past five years. I was speaking to a real estate agent about what we were looking for, and he raised his eyebrows slightly when I told him our budget. He told me that if I wanted an off-street parking space within our budget, we needed to consider smaller towns outside the city. There was one town which we kn...

Sarah J. Maas is publishing the sixth "A Court of Thorns and Roses" book. Alexandra Genova / SAINT LUCY Represents Sarah J. Maas is returning to the "ACOTAR" world with two new books. The sixth book will be released on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027. Teasers shared ahead of its release confirmed three characters who will return in book six. Sarah J. Maas fans, gather round. We finally know what's coming in the "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series (sort of). On August 17, 2026, Maas announced the titles of the sixth and seventh "ACOTAR" books, along with initial descriptions of the novels. Book six is called "A Court of Splintered Harmony" and will be released on October 27, 2026, and book seven is "A Court of Forgotten Melody," hitting shelves on January 12, 2027. Maas first announced she would publish the sixth and seventh installments of her series in March 2026, remaining tight-lipped about them...

Joanna Gaines and Magnolia Table released a line of frozen baked goods. Samantha Pettyjohn Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Table brand released a line of frozen baked goods. I tried the eight items and ranked them from worst to best. The frozen version of Jo's Buttermilk Biscuit was my favorite of the bunch. It's hard to say what Joanna Gaines is more famous for at this point: her home designs or her food. Gaines and her husband became household names through "Fixer Upper," but over a decade later, they're full-blown moguls who are constantly expanding their Magnolia empire . For Gaines, that has meant leaning into new food ventures, from the Magnolia Table restaurant in Waco to her ever-growing list of cookbooks. And last year, she entered the frozen food game. In October 2025, Gaines launched a line of frozen baked goods through her Magnolia Table brand. I decided to try every item in the line so I could rank them. Here's what I thought. Joanna Gaines launche...

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M   —  Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced on Thursday that it raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ZfSjzIb

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP On October 2, an Irkutsk lab employee died from pneumonia. There's confusion over what illness the woman died from, with conflicting reports out of the region. The World Health Organization says the US is at "very low risk" of being exposed to the plague. After a technician at an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia died, Russian officials are attempting to calm global concerns. Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, died on October 2 after being hospitalized days earlier for pneumonia in Shelekhov, a nearby town . The World Health Organization told the Associated Press on October 6 that the plague presents a "very low" risk to the broader European region. That doesn't mean we know everything —...