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Solo Travel 2018: Get in Touch With Your Do-Good Side

You know how anytime you close the guidebook and step off the tourist path — like, say, when you bike through a town instead of […]

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Five Ways to Get Away From Philly This Spring, No Companion Required

Immerse yourself in a new culture Go well off the beaten path with these tour groups. Read more » Get in touch with your do-good […]

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Solo Travel 2018: Adventure Into the Great Outdoors

Still waiting for this miserable winter to end? When the itch to get outdoors becomes too much to bear, logic dictates that it’s time to […]

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Solo Travel 2018: Bolster Your Creative Self

Making a New Year’s resolution is easy. Keeping a New Year’s resolution — that’s a different story. Three months into 2018, how are those plans […]

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The 10 Commandments of Solo Travel

Heading out into the world on your own for the first time? Here, the laws that will make an on-your-own excursion a success: 1. Be […]

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Campus Life 101: What It’s Like to Be a Philly College Student Right Now

Haverford College Students:* 1,318 Location: Haverford Students routinely describe the liberal arts school as an intimate (“really small”) school where everybody knows everybody. The school’s […]

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Remember When College Was Fun?

Cami Potter first spotted a professional party pooper in September. She’d just finished another excruciatingly long week at the University of Pennsylvania. The 21-year-old senior, […]

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How Alexa Ruined My Marriage

My husband Doug and I were watching the halftime show of a nationally televised Sixers game when he squinted at the screen. “Who’s that on […]

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Gridlock: Center City’s Traffic Apocalypse

It’s a good problem to have, all the experts tell me. A symbol of our growth and vitality. A sign of just how hot our […]

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For Rape Victims, the #MeToo Movement Can Cut Both Ways

Not long ago, a friend of mine asked me what the best day of my life was. We were sitting on the banks of the […]