It is painful showing up as someone you don’t actually want to be. You know who you’d be if you weren’t doing it. You catch glimpses. The version of you that says what you actually think. That says no when you mean no. That walks out of the conversation without...

Earth as photographed from Artemis II. This year, a man who already knew everything about Earth’s fragility circled the moon and, while still in orbit, said the value was in being shown. It confirmed something I’ve been learning the hard way for years — that the...

My ex-wife said something to me years ago that I think about to this day. She said knowing yourself is like breathing. If you know who you are, you don’t even think about it. It just happens. You move through the world as yourself without monitoring every choice,...