Articles
The New York Times
You can find all my recent stories on my page at the New York Times, but here’s a sampling of some of my work.
THE WELL CHALLENGES
The 30-Day Well Challenge
The 28-Day Healthy Habits Challenge
REFRESH
Need a Reset? Here’s How to Make a Fresh Start
Four Lessons from Your Anxious Brain
How to Find a Hobby — A Well Guide
How to Be Better at Stress - A Well Guide
How to Get a Better Night’s Sleep — A Well Guide
How to Be Happy - A Well Guide
How to Build Resilience in Mid-Life
RELATIONSHIPS
Is Marriage Good for Your Health
How to Have a Better Relationship — A Well Guide
How to Be a Better Friend — A Well Guide
Quiz: Do You Have a Generous Relationship
Quiz: How Passionate Is Your Love?
EAT
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
How to Have Better Family Meals — A Well Guide
MOVE
In 6 Minutes You Can Be Done With Your Workout
A Marathon Run in the Slow Lane
Really, Really Short Workouts — A Well Guide
Can’t Do the 7-Minute Workout? Neither Can I
How to Start Running — A Well Guide
LIVING & AGING WELL
How to Age Well — A Well Guide
The Mid-Life Tune Up — A Well Guide
Quiz: How Self Compassionate Are You
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside
How to Raise an Anti-Racist Child
Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival
The Cancer Divide - Mary (Video)
How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge Epi-Pen Prices
2018 WINTER OLYMPICS
How to Get Adam Rippon’s Olympic Abs
For Snowboarders, the Music Matters as Much as the Gear
How to Manage Stress Like an Olympic Biathlete
Olympic Cross Country Skiiers Eat 8,000 Calories a Day. It’s Exhausting
How to Stay Warm at a Bitter Cold Olympics
At the Olympics, Motherhood Skis Away with the Gold and Bronze
When Skating Fans Toss Bears and Bouquets, the Flower Kids Clean Up
Oksana Masters’ Road from a Ukrainian Orphanage to Para-Olympic Stardom
The Fat Trap
Once we become fat, most of us, despite our best efforts, will probably stay fat.
Is Marriage Good for Your Health
New research is increasingly presenting a more nuanced view of the so-called marriage advantage.
Life, Interrupted
Watch the Emmy-winning video series about a young woman’s life coping with cancer.
Kept from a Dying Partner’s Bedside
Read the story that prompted President Obama to change the law to protect same-sex couples and won a GLAAD Media Award!
A Marathon Run in the Slow Lane
This remains one of my favorite stories of all time — my NYC marathon experience at the back of the pack.
The Cancer Divide: Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival
The women featured in this story died from the disease. When I left them, Debrah held a prayer circle to keep me safe while flying.
Oksana Masters’s Road From a Ukrainian Orphanage to Paralympic Stardom
My favorite story from the 2018 Olympics!
Wall Street Journal - 1993-2007
Lessons Learned from Doctors Patients and My Mother - Aug 28, 2007
What the Viagra Experience is Really Like - Nov 11, 2002
How the NIH Misread the Hormone Study - July 9, 2007
Want Fat with That? A Surprising Way to Make Vegetables More Nutritious - Aug. 8, 2006
How to Give Your Body to Science - Mar 16, 2004
The Case Against Vitamins - Mar 20, 2006
A BALANCED LIFE
I wrote a weekly column for the WSJ with Kyle Pope about the struggle to find balance as new parents. Here are some of my favorites.( I am still trying to track many of these old columns down in the archives)
At the End of Life, Remembering the Joy of Work - A Tribute to My Late Father-in-Law - Sept 2, 2001
Coping with Family Emergencies - Mar 4, 2001
Lessons Learned from Doctors, Patients and My Mother
For my final story at the Wall Street Journal, I wrote about losing my mother to esophageal cancer.