Earlier this week, Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history just said no to continuing in the team gymnastics competition and participating in the individual all-around at the Tokyo Olympics, citing mental health concerns. Not surprisingly, Biles’ raving fans supported her decision – and to their credit, most commentators have as well
Seven years ago, I had my last real conversation with my beloved husband before the brain tumor that we would learn about ten days later wreaked havoc on his beautiful mind and eventually took his life. There’s so much I wish I had told him then, and so much more that’s transpired in the past
Thirty-five year old sprinter Allyson Felix is the most decorated Olympian in track and field history. Yet even Felix couldn’t outrun discrimination by her former sponsor Nike — which pressured her to return to form as soon as possible after a high-risk pregnancy and birth while slashing her pay to 70 percent of what she’d
Last month with the country reopening post-pandemic, on the eve of my 57th birthday, I embarked on a bucket-list trip to the Dakotas with Wyoming and Montana tossed in because why not? Compared to the East Coast where I reside, the west is more immense in every respect: big, endless sky, wide-open roads and days