Stressed? Anxious? Feel like the world is falling apart? Over years of expressing displeasure about my anxiety level, every therapist, mindfulness coach, friend, colleague, and listener off the street has jumped to tell me that meditation is the best solution. But I hate meditation. Ever since my first college course…

I’m on a plane from Hawaii to Japan. Normally, a trip to Japan would have Daniel and I dancing on the wings of the plane. But not today. Because Hawaii was Heaven. Sort of. It was actually kind of cold, and REALLY windy, and generally not the best swimming weather. …

I have very little reason to hate the San Francisco Bay Area. The food was perfect for me (except for the mysterious lack of good Mexican food), it was great living so close to so many hiking trails (yay redwoods!), …

Moving to the developing world is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. …

One might, understandably, ask why a person — particularly one doing well in her career with a devoted husband and a strong group of friends — would drag said husband 8,000 miles to live in a country where they knew no one, did not speak the language, had limited job…

If you haven’t been privy to my frantic planning over the past few months, you may be asking yourself what exactly we’re doing here in Southeast Asia. I’m afraid “it’s complicated” doesn’t begin to cover it. Over the next few months, I intend to work through this question. …

Stage of Culture Shock: Adjustment It wasn’t until our last day in Bangkok that I felt it. After what was definitely more than 15 minutes of waiting, I had just boarded a water taxi going from Thewet to Nonthaburi. This was my second attempt at taxiing on the Chao Phraya…

Yiqun Chen and Tess Ryckman are the first students in the Stanford Health Policy PhD program to win research grants. Their projects could improve health outcomes in the United States and in the developing world. “Awards like these are a recognition of the quality of our very young PhD program,”…

By Jay Bhattacharya If there is such a person as a universally respected and universally loved scholar, Professor Arrow was such a man. I have been trying to think of what I might write to pay tribute to him that somebody else could not say better. …