If you’re anything like me, one of the things you missed during the past couple years was the ability to move around in the world with ease. Sometime toward the beginning of the pandemic, I bought myself a new suitcase and began fantasizing about the trips I would...
Is there a good reason women live past menopause? What purpose do we serve once we can no longer reproduce? For generations, social scientists focused on these questions when studying human evolution. But why? That’s one of the questions journalist Vicki Larson...
You probably know that improvisation is a form of live theater in which the plot, characters and dialog in a scene are made up in the moment. But were you aware that improv can be useful in life outside the theater? On today’s episode of the More Beautiful Podcast, I...
I wish I could say it happened while I was doing something sexy or cool. Like snowboarding, salsa dancing, or having a romp with my husband. But no, I was just making the bed—more specifically, leaning over to fluff a pillow—when a back muscle suddenly spasmed and...
Sometimes life brings you to a place where you feel detached from the person you once were, and it takes an unexpected, sometimes tumultuous turn of events to connect with her again. That happened to Laura Friedman Williams in 2018, when she found out her husband of...
