September 2026

Carinne Meyrignac turned a simple idea sparked by motherhood into a children’s publishing business generating millions in annual revenue. After discovering musical books in France that kept her young daughter engaged, she returned to Los Angeles and struggled to find similar products. In 2016, she decided to create her own interactive musical books, launching Cali’s…

Hooper Island Lighthouse. Image Credit: WBOC For more than a century, the 1902 Hooper Island Lighthouse has stood three miles offshore in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Years of exposure have left the historic structure badly in need of repair, but its latest owner sees an opportunity to give it a new purpose. Pennsylvania painter Rich Cucé…

Two people can look at the same career and weigh its achievements using completely different scales. One treats a small number of high-stakes tournament results, especially a World Cup title, as the single decisive measure of greatness, the tiebreaker that settles any debate regardless of everything else on the résumé. The other argues that a…