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Can a $90,000 car solve all your self-care woes?

What exactly is self-care if not code for spoiling oneself? At least that’s what it seems like it’s become. In a world where “wellness” and “self-love” as well as “positive thinking” has become as commonplace as green juices, CBD tinctures, adaptogens and more … the term has become so...

How my dad taught me to become a pretty boy

(My father, on the left, a pretty boy, learned how to survive in an America that didn’t accept those who looked like him.)My dad was a pretty boy. At least, that was his nickname given to him around his neighborhood in Pyongtaek, South Korea. Though the Yi family...