Shortly after marrying my wonderful wife, I told her that I would rather starve than “have a belly”. In my relatively young adult mind, I believed that I could always keep doing the things I was doing and not gain weight. How naive I was! We weren’t married long before…

I love baked salmon. I fell in love with it eating lovingly-prepared meals at my paternal grandmother’s table. Unfortunately, she took her secret recipe to the grave with her. One thing I do know: no part of the recipe was hurried. …

MapQuest was a technological marvel. In the early days of the internet you would. . . Visit mapquest.com, Enter your departure address, Enter your destination address, Print the turn-by-turn instructions produced by the system, Take your printed directions and find your way to your destination following the directions. Remarkable as…

‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ was one of three key messages created by Britain’s wartime propaganda department, the Ministry of Information, during the second World War. …

There’s something about the way Michael Thompson writes that moves my soul. Perhaps it was the first article of his that I ever read; published back in 2019, as I recall. Here’s a brief excerpt; the opener: I was walking the rainy streets of Barcelona with a girl I had…

We live in a weird time. On one hand, the wellness folks are all telling us to take a beat and slow down. A lot. Articles with titles like these dot the internet landscape: “Why You Need to Slow Down” “Slow Down: You’re Not Falling Behind” “We Need to Slow…

It’s rare that I get more than 6 hours of sleep in a night. 5 is a solid average. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to stop setting an alarm. I figured I would wake up when my body was done sleeping. What surprised and frustrated me: I started…

Imagine you’ve just been to the doctor for a routine checkup. But your doctor found something. A few weeks later, tests confirm that you have a stage II non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Treatments begin in earnest: chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiation. You lose your appetite. Weight loss becomes a problem not a desired…

It was 5:00 am when we hit the trailhead of one of the most challenging day-hikes the Wasatch mountains have to offer. For August, it was a cool morning, but I knew that would change as soon as the sun crept over the jagged peak above us. We hiked quickly…