For years, I've followed a woman in the nutrition space — a vegan chef who built both a career and an identity around eating with no salt, no oil, no sugar. That way of eating had helped her lose a significant amount of weight, and for a long time, it worked — she was solid, healthy, exactly the body and identity she'd built her name on. She'd also built a following around it — people who looked to her as proof that this one way was the healthy way to live. Then came cancer,

On curiosity, courage, and the pause before saying No I was reading an article recently about small daily practices that support longevity. One in particular stopped me: stay curious. Pick one thing and dig in. My first reaction was relief — because I spend a lot of my days being curious. But I've also been criticized for it. Others sometimes perceive curiosity as setting up for an attack. It makes me sad to think that we've arrived at a place where genuine interest in learni

We've been making this trip for nearly a decade. Same time of year, same mountain, same rhythm of spring skiing — the kind where the snow gets heavy and the crowds thin out and you're grateful for it even when the conditions are a little ragged around the edges. This year was different. By the time we arrived at Park City, the resort was running at about 40% capacity. By the time we left, they'd consolidated everything to a single chairlift with two blue runs and a handful of

Life has a funny way of getting in the way of itself. One minute you're living it on your terms. The next, you're living on its terms. This happens to most of us more regularly than we'd like to admit. And if you're anything like me, someone who resists a changed plan unless I'm the one doing the changing, you feel every single instance of it. The smaller disruptions? Those tend to bring out my fighter. The advocate who problem-solves, pushes back, finds another way. But some

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