For as long as I can remember, I’ve dreamed of one day changing the world.
“Why would we walk for an hour when we could take a 15-minute cab ride that would cost almost nothing?”
I chuckle at my dad’s question, until I realize that he isn’t kidding.
If you’ve ever participated in a 5K, half marathon, marathon, or other walk/run event, you know…
“Why are black women dying faster and at higher rates than any other group of people in America from preventable obesity-related diseases?” GirlTrek co-founders Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon ask in their inspirational and action-oriented TED Talk, “The Trauma of…
A walk to the grocery store. That’s all it took to entirely transform my perspective on homelessness.
“Why is walking a particularly effective way of improving mental health?” I ask, knowing that Professor of Sociology Sarah Stiles will undoubtedly have a bit of wisdom to share.
You’ve heard it before: Walk 10,000 steps a day for better health.
But have you ever wondered where that recommendation came from?
As Michael Mosley writes in his article, “Forget Walking 10,000 Steps a Day,” the…
A person will take an average of 216,262,500 steps in their lifetime.
In my book, It Starts with a Step, I write about how walking has the power to change the world. But does this exclude all of the people who can’t walk in the traditional sense of the word from having an impact in this way?
I took my first steps on my first birthday. Since then, my love of walking has only grown — so much so that I decided to…
