There are trips you plan for months, and there are trips you book because you simply have to be there. This was the second kind. Croatia was playing Panama in Toronto, and for a Croatian-American who has spent a lifetime watching this team from a couch an ocean away, I wasn’t going to miss it. […]
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For a long time, wellness looked like a destination. A retreat in the mountains, a digital detox weekend, a juice cleanse that reset everything before Monday arrived and undid it all again. Something you went to, completed, and returned from — and then got back to your real life. That model is quietly falling apart. […]
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There is a particular moment every summer when your skin stops cooperating. The moisturizer that carried you through winter suddenly feels like a layer you can’t shake. Your foundation moves. Your pores feel larger. Your skin looks simultaneously oily and tired, which shouldn’t be possible but somehow is. This is not a skin problem. This […]
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Croatia is in the World Cup. The Vatreni are playing on North American soil for the first time. And if you’re in New York City — one of the most diverse, football-obsessed cities on earth — you have absolutely no excuse not to be somewhere watching it. As a Croatian-American who has been following this […]
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New York has been waiting fifty-two years for this. Fifty-two years of almost. Of heartbreak. Of watching other cities celebrate while we told ourselves next year, next year, next year. Fifty-two years of MSG filling up anyway — because this city doesn’t stop believing just because belief is inconvenient. That’s not how New York works. […]
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A Croatian-American editor’s guide to following Croatia at the 2026 FIFA World Cup — the matches, the cities, the culture, and what this moment means for the diaspora.
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