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True Story: I opened a dog cafe

What would it be like to open your own dog cafe?! A dream? A Department of Health nightmare? Both? Click through for one dog-lover's business story!

When I ​was in New York last fall, I had lunch with my friend Logan. Over noodles, she told me she was thinking about opening a dog cafe; I nodded along and immediately forgot about it. 

Flash forward to 2018 and Boris And Horton is on the Today Show, USA Today, and New York Post! Today, Logan is tell us  how she helped open New York’s first dog cafe.

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True Story: I Had Weight Loss Surgery

True Story: I Had Weight Loss Surgery

Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Sheena May, I’m 30, short, rather feisty and obsessed with Star Wars. I hail from the frozen tundra of the Midwest and spent the first 11 years of my life moving around Minneapolis and its suburbs, until my family settled in the small quaint town of, Aitkin. Currently, I live in Southeastern Virginia with my son and boyfriend. I spend the little bit of...

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How to (charmingly) maintain your boundaries

How to (charmingly) maintain your boundaries

A few months ago, over an enormous bowl of guac and a big bottle of Malbec, my best friend inadvertently introduced me to a phrase that's been slowly transforming my life. It began (as most good stories do) with trying to cancel a gym membership. You know how this story goes: you call them to cancel the gym membership. They give you a guilt trip the size of a city block and insist you come to...

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Traveling The World Via Instagram – My 10 Favorite International Instragrammers

Traveling The World Via Instagram – My 10 Favorite International Instragrammers

A million years after everyone else, I've jumped on the Instagram bandwagon like the curmudgeonly, late-adopter I am. (You can follow me here). But now that I'm there? I'm there, satisfying my never-ending wanderlust by following photographers from all over the world, gorging myself on back alley peeks into other countries and photos of food I don't recognize. Here are 10 of my favorite...

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Kitchen Globetrotter: Tanzania // Pineapple Salad

Kitchen Globetrotter: Tanzania // Pineapple Salad

There’s something about coconut that makes whatever it touches just…irresistible. I first made this discovery several years ago, when I used coconut milk (rather than plain ol’ water) to cook up a pot of rice. I remember my main squeeze remarking during dinner that it seemed like some kind of magic—that he couldn’t stop sneaking bite after bite, that the coconut just made him “want to get to...

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True Story: I Had My Breast Implants Removed

True Story: I Had My Breast Implants Removed

This is one of many True Story interviews, in which we talk to people who have experienced interesting, amazing, challenging things. This is the story of Apryl and her decision to get her breast implants removed. Tell us a bit about yourself! I'm from Los Angeles via Minneapolis via Los Angeles. I'm currently residing in St. Paul before I move to NYC next year. I have a little mobile business...

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10 Things To Do In Florida If You Don’t Like Amusement Parks

10 Things To Do In Florida If You Don’t Like Amusement Parks

I'd like to start this blog post by acknowledging that while I like Florida,  I don't like amusement parks. Fried food, spew-inducing roller coasters, long lines, direct sunlight, other people's poorly behaved children? ABSOLUTELY NOT. You'd quite literally have to pay me $200 to go to Disneyland. So when my husband invited me to tag along to a conference in Tampa my thought process went...

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