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For most of my adult life, adventure meant movement — and I’ve had plenty of it. Dental clinics in Cambodia, Kathmandu, and Guatemala. Family adventures to beautiful and exotic places. New hobbies that pull me into deep dives. My friends tease me about that — once I find something new, I go all in. I’ve ...
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For most of my adult life, adventure meant movement — and I’ve had plenty of it. Dental clinics in Cambodia, Kathmandu, and Guatemala. Family adventures to beautiful and exotic places.
December 26, 2025
It All Depends Eventually, each of us isasked to put all we knowinto what’s before us. It might be helping a turtlecross a road or bringingorange juice to a neighborwho
December 25, 2025
P is for Presence (and Presents) I’ve lived my life in pursuit of… wealth health joy beauty power peace planning, bracing, chasing, anticipating… neverbeing neverPresentfor thesePresents I’ve already gatheredin my
December 24, 2025
My classmates voted me “Most Likely to Succeed” in high school. Optimism, a passion for language, and a strong work ethic served me well over the decades. Unlike the carefree
December 23, 2025
Welcome to Christmas week when I’m going to let our MEA community give you the gifts of guest posts for the week starting with Tracey’s reflections on being silent. If
December 22, 2025
The year I turned 43, I reached a major crossroad. A cliff jumper and one-time rescue swimmer, I had inexplicably developed panic attacks in the water. They came for me
December 21, 2025
A lifetime of being in and around the film, television and journalism worlds has made me appreciate both how difficult it is to get movies and television programs made and
December 20, 2025
Given that I wrote about the evolving brain yesterday, I wanted to share some new brain science with you that’s summed up in this recent article. There is something deeply
December 19, 2025
According to a sweeping 2025 study from Cambridge, our brains actually pass through five distinct life-stage epochs — childhood, extended adolescence, adulthood, early aging, and late aging — with major
December 18, 2025
The more complicated the world gets, the more wisdom we need. Knowledge is in your phone. Wisdom is in your gut, but we have precious few schools or practices to
December 17, 2025
The “Don’t Die” movement has a certain blunt appeal—optimize everything, control every variable, outrun mortality through metrics. Bryan Johnson is its poster child: disciplined, regimented, tracked to the decimal. Admirable?
December 16, 2025
When I was in high school, shortcuts showed up as Cliff Notes and Evelyn Wood speed-reading classes—promising smarter, faster versions of ourselves without the messy middle. Today’s shortcuts are far
December 15, 2025
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