Re-create your idea of life in the new year with this light hearted excerpt from the first weeks of my 2026.

L ast week I was jogging with my friend Madge—a weekly habit we’ve built called “Movement Minutes” to, well, get moving. That day, we...

“Why are you breathing like that?” the nurse asked me when I woke up. Lying on the operating table in Harlem Hospital’s emergency room, I...