Nomad Gyaltsan Zangpo and village head, center, prepares dinner as his wife, sitting, prepares dough for bread inside their mud house kitchen in remote Kharnak village in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Trunz had a easy solution for a client who had a stuffed front hall closet and felt she couldn’t accommodate the coats of guests.“We just bought them a rolling rack, as if it’s a fancy thing. Nobody’s going to open the closet,” she said.
And if someone does house-shame you, there’s another easy solution, she said. One of her best friends is a teacher who invited teacher friends over for a meal and made her favorite tuna fish, choosing to focus on the magic of gathering rather than the toil of preparation.“And one person in the group kept pointing out the fact that she only had one bathroom, and how did she live like that. I asked my friend, ‘What are you going to do about that?’ And she said, ‘You just decide not to have that person over.’ It can be that simple.”Grant Magdanz, who uses Instagram to chronicle Los Angeles life living with his grandmother, has racked up about half a million likes
showing off their decades-old furniture, mismatched cups and cluttered dining table.“Not everyone’s life is themed, curated and made for social media,” a scroll on the video said. “In fact, most people’s aren’t. And we’re happy all the same.”
was interviewed by the Secret Service on Friday about a
that Republicans insisted was a call for violence against President Donald Trump.Kumaison stands on the pathway leading to her house in a flooded neighborhood in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Kumaison stands on the pathway leading to her house in a flooded neighborhood in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Kumaison remembers the time she cried when a bad flood washed away the 400,000 Indonesian rupiah (US$27) she had been saving. Other items, like clothes and furniture, could be cleaned and repaired. But the money was gone forever.
Growing up in the village as a young girl, Kumaison says she remembers her neighbors’ rice fields and shrimp ponds as a thriving business.But now, “Everything is gone, can’t harvest shrimp or fish. It’s changed everyone’s livelihoods,” she says.