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I’m lying in Mom’s bed. It’s 5 a.m. on Sunday morning. Exactly 48 hours earlier, I was on an early morning treadmill before our Philosophy workshop at the MEA Santa Fe ranch campus when I got a call from Dad. My 88-year-old mom—who had lived more than a decade with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)—was on ...
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Tomorrow is my final day of owning The Phoenix, my first boutique hotel (really a motel) that I created nearly 40 years ago. Some remarkable lyrics have been penned in
January 30, 2026
There’s a picture that sticks with me: a room in a New York apartment where books line every surface, leaned against the walls, piled on tables, stacked in corners —
January 29, 2026
Today, it’s edging into the mainstream — unevenly, imperfectly, but with unmistakable momentum. A recent New York Times article on psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”) makes clear that while the rollout of
January 28, 2026
We hold George Floyd in heartfelt memory, and send love to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. May courage and care carry you through with hope, resilience, warmth,
January 27, 2026
But as the Wall Street Journal recently highlighted, most of us never plan for how we will continue to matter once work ends — and that oversight can be more
January 26, 2026
When I was in my 50’s and traveling on a group tour in India, I met a woman on the trip who inspired my future travels. I had always had
January 25, 2026
That, however, was not at all how I felt when I first approached this vast unknown. Rather I was filled with a huge array of conflicting emotions. I loved my
January 24, 2026
Longevity has quietly shattered that model. As MEA alum Avivah Wittenberg-Cox notes in this Forbes article, we’re now living multi-chapter lives — and higher education is finally beginning to catch
January 23, 2026
Life is one big noble experiment. When you experiment, you don’t fail…you learn and, boy, did I learn in our first “Golden Girls, Santa Fe Style workshop” this past weekend.
January 22, 2026
A recent Wall Street Journal essay about longevity highlighted something profound: the people who live healthiest and longest aren’t those who obsess over diets or gadgets, but those who stay
January 21, 2026
When we first crossed paths in the mid-1990s, he was 28 and I was 35—both of us ambitious, caffeinated, and convinced we were running late for our destinies. His sister
January 20, 2026
Here are a couple of ways MLK’s views developed and deepened over his career: from Southern civil rights to systemic injustice, saying “What good is having the right to sit
January 19, 2026
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