BusinessAndPleasure 27 Feb 2026 Claire's Unexpected Vacation Encounter Claire hopes to steal Emily's friend, but Charles's wife, Anna, gets in the way. I was sitting by the pool waiting for my sister Emily to come back. “What could be taking her so long?” I thought to myself. I really didn’t care that much about my sister’s company at the moment – I had a drink, a seat in the sun, and several attractive men to watch around the pool – but I was about to need to get in the pool to cool off, and I was hoping Emily would bring a hair clip back for me too. I was about to say...
BusinessAndPleasure 5 Feb 2026 Emily's Poolside Fun Emily's graduation trip to St. John takes an interesting turn when she meets Charles... Every year, my family takes a summer trip when all of my siblings and I are out of school. It has been a family tradition for as long as I can remember. Usually, we would choose somewhere warm and sunny like Florida or Hilton Head, South Carolina, but on special occasions like major birthdays, graduations or things like that, my parents would splurge and choose somewhere more exotic like Hawaii, Aruba, Jamaica. I had just...
BusinessAndPleasure 12 Jan 2026 The Trip Charles has a once in a lifetime trip to Europe for work The life of a consultant can be exhausting. For the past 3 years, I have been traveling from Chicago to Stuttgart, Germany once per month. A manufacturing company hired my company during the acquisition of a small startup. What started out as a “quick and easy” evaluation of their profit and loss statements and valuation estimate turned into a more elaborate chore once we realized just how messy their books were. The flig...