Archive for May 2025
Eat, Pray, Write: Reflections on an Oxford Writing Retreat in Italy
Was it the scent of wood smoke drifting through the ground floor of the castle from the open fireplace in the massive country kitchen? Or the vases of olive branches and wildflowers we’d picked from the surrounding hills. Or perhaps the workshops held in a grand library, all of us seated around a long wooden…
Read MoreLearning from an Adaptive Athlete: Rowing with Claire Parker
Claire Parker has faced some tough challenges in her life. At 28, she lost a leg to cancer. At 55, she ended a long marriage. But on this spring morning in mid-April, the retired British oncologist removes her artificial leg, kneels on a yoga mat, and uses her arms to swing her body off the…
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