Something is sitting in the pit of my stomach. Something in my heart that isn’t entirely hardened by tragedies and violence is stirring. At first, I read the news out of Buffalo with the eye of an American who is used to mass shootings. I moved on through my day…

For most of my life, the idea of being a “dog person” was foreign to me. In my house growing up, our dogs were an afterthought. They were small and lived mostly in the backyard. I assume someone fed them, but I don’t recall who. I know they were loved…

Slack is down this morning, as is Peloton. So now, I have a legitimate excuse not to get on the bike with this extra time I have on my hands. I left my bullet points for a presentation I had to do in a Slack message, and just had to…

The bright white light of the giant video screen bounced off roughly 40 similarly-balding heads, like three dozen eggs lined up waiting to hatch. It is almost the Q&A portion of the young scholar’s research and she is prepared for any question about the methodology of her modeling approach, the…

Marathons can shine a mirror on the parts of our lives we’d rather not see, but they can also teach us tough life lessons we need to hear. — “If you go to this restaurant my cousin owns, and you don’t like it, you can murder me.” This is the first thing I write down in my journal during marathon weekend. Our Turo host tells us this as he is driving us from LAX to the off-site location he…

Warning: if you are totally fine right now and everything is great, this isn’t the article for you. I’m super happy for you, but this space is for those of us running on fumes. This piece originally appeared on December 7th, 2021 on ELGL’s Morning Buzz *** For the last…

This spring, I started a Substack newsletter about life. It was going swimmingly-I was religious about my weekly updates about where and when I cried in public, and the journey I was on to reclaim my mental health. As summer approached, I took a week off from writing, and that…

The first work trip in 15 months proved a lot to take in. I opened my work tote for the first time since March 2020. It was like a time capsule–a preserved artifact of a more innocent time. The first thing I pulled out was a set of tasting notes…

Over the last year, I’ve done a lot of work to make sure being physically healthy is a healthy pursuit and not a distraction from the harder work of being mentally and spiritually healthy. I have done things I said I’d never do and run distances I never thought possible…