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I Had The Ultimate Italian Vacation — Without Eating A Single Slice Of Pizza

by Alexandra Cheney

I'm A Young Woman Who Loves To Travel Alone — Here's Why

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The Places Every Woman Should Go In 2016

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She Took On Centuries Of Icelandic Tradition To Fulfill Her Dreams

The precipitous ridges that are her knuckles rise and fall as she grips the silver smudged tongs, swiftly and adroitly rotating her wrist. The gold

by Alexandra Cheney

She Went From Broke To Launching A Multi-Million Dollar Company

Over the past 16 years, Zhena Muzyka has gone from being a pregnant single mother with $6 to her name to founding a multi-million-dollar organic

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How A School Project Became A Thriving, 10-Woman Company

A balmy late summer wind blows through the front doors of Wings Hawaii, a clothing and lifestyle boutique in the quaint town of Pa’ia on the island of

by Alexandra Cheney

Bear Spray & Chapstick: What It Really Takes To Work In ...

In the mossy, malachite forest at the heart of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, amid stands of quaking aspen and Englemann spruce trees, Jacqueline Elder

by Alexandra Cheney

This 70-Year-Old French Woman Has All The Food Secrets

Poised with one leg casually draped over the other, Francine Halasz sips Champagne from a crystal flute. It’s lunchtime at her house on the Cote

by Alexandra Cheney