Thirteen years ago this month, I was in charge of planning the holiday party for the company where I was working at the time. It was a small group, just under twenty employees with the usual festivities: drinks and small talk before a four-course meal in a dimly lit restaurant…

I turned 45 today. My grandmother is 101. If I count on her genes, I’m still a good five years from the middle of my life. I remember an interview with physicist Brian Greene on RadioLab (at least I think it was Greene and he was on RadioLab — but…

If I still drank, I would have last night. There was nothing noticeably different yesterday from all my other days. I woke in the morning and helped my husband get our second grader ready for school — my husband fixed our son’s breakfast while I laid out his clothes and…