One of the absolute best ways to learn about wine is to “dive in” and wine festivals, especially when they have a focus on educational seminars, are a terrific way to dive in. But even if you’re just a wine lover who likes to taste and sample and enjoy, then wine festivals equally rise to the occasion. There are thousands of wine-focused festivals - both big and small - each year and in every corner of the world. This month, we take look at some incredible summer wine festiva

At a local high school basketball game, the game came down to the wire. Player A, the star of the team, is standing on the perimeter, surveying the defense, ball in his hands. Player A could easily take the shot, but instead, passes to Player B who’s wide open in the corner. Player B take a shot, but misses. It would be easy for Player A to say, “Why didn’t he make that shot? He is terrible!” which may be an accurate assessment of skills, but instead, he chooses to ask hims

THE CHILD AS A LIVING PROPHECY “When we protect the youngest members of the human family, we build a better world.” - António Guterres There are moments in history when the future does not arrive as a machine, a market, or a manifesto. It arrives as a child. Not merely as a biological beginning, but as a living threshold - a soft, watchful, radiant presence through which a civilization quietly reveals what it believes about life itself. Whether it chooses tenderness or force.

Perfect powder. Luxury accommodations. Lively restaurants. An experience designed with a jet-set, snow-fiend in mind. We could be talking about Aspen, Vail, Megève, Cortina d’Ampezzo or Whistler; but we’re talking about Hakuba Valley in – you might have guessed it – Japan. From December to May each year, skiers-who-know flock to the mountainous village in the Nagano Prefecture that hosted part of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Since it’s on the same island as Tokyo, it’s a simple

Anne Hathaway is talking about work-life balance, a concept that actresses were asked about for decades and their male counterparts never were. It may have reached its apex (or nadir, depending on how you look at it) in 2013, when Sheryl Sandberg told every woman to lean in, that they could “have it all”, which mostly meant having a family and a full-throttle career and no time to feel adequate at any of it. For a while, everyone seemed to agree that this was a good thing. In