Sean Spence

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A few years back, a Columbia woman named Cheryl Overstreet had a stroke in her brainstem. She woke up in University Hospital, and the whole left side of...

Growing older, it turns out, has a marketing problem. Ask most people what they picture when they hear “get older,” and the images are not exactly aspirational —...

A few years ago, I decided to do something I had never done before, every single day, for a year. All 365 days. I wrote it down each...

Go Anyway   Leigh and I just got back from Barcelona. Five days. First real international trip we have taken together. I am a full-time wheelchair user, and...

Last month I asked, “Starting today, what is one thing you could do to grow older and better?” Here is what I’ve discovered: We may not choose to...

Starting today, what is one thing you could do to grow older and better? It is not the kind of question you answer on the way to something...