Lesson: The Mediterranean Diet Isn’t a Diet
I arrived in Crete convinced I knew what the Mediterranean diet was. Olive oil, fish, vegetables, a glass of red wine. Simple. I’d read the…
Wellness
Health, mindfulness, and self-care
How a Month of Silence in Bali Saved My Sanity
I didn’t go to Bali for wellness. I went because my laptop was open eighteen hours a day, my Slack notifications sounded like a slot…
How Mountain Photography Became My Meditation
The therapist’s advice was practical and, in retrospect, slightly unorthodox: “You need to be somewhere your phone doesn’t work.” She wasn’t wrong. After eighteen months…
Camino de Santiago: 800 Kilometers of Beauty
On the morning I left Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, a French Basque village at the foot of the Pyrenees, I weighed my backpack three times. 8.4 kilograms. By…
A Week of Digital Detox in the Mountains
I didn’t plan to disconnect. The mountain cabin I’d rented simply didn’t have Wi-Fi, and cell service was nonexistent past the tree line. What started…