I’ve decided to go gray. Accept this turn of life. Stop hiding it. Stop coloring my hair. Even stop reveling in looking 10 years younger than I am. Who the …
Don’t Be Scared of the Life Inside You
People wonder why we hit the stopwatch and lift barbells and run and do those stupid burpees. (And they are stupid, even if they are effective.) I wonder that sometimes, …
5 Reasons Monday Is a Fantastic Day
You’re alive. I’m going to guess that everybody who died wishes they had one more Monday. If you did Sunday night right, then you got a running start to Monday. You’re …
I Know This Much Is True
In those moments when I get caught up in the sturm und drang of everyday life, I realize that (like that old Spandau Ballet song), I know this much is true.
It’s You
Make yourself as strong and as kind and as educated and as loving as you possibly can because you are the one constant everywhere you go.
I Will Not Be Broken
It wasn’t that I couldn’t be broken—the world had proven me wrong on that—but rather that I could refuse to be a broken person.
