Health
Shaking up my breakfast routine! 🥜 These peanut butter banana muffins are exactly the variety I needed. Wholesome, delicious, and so easy to make. Here’s to breaking the breakfast boredom! I can’t wait to make them. But I will need to buy a muffin pan, first.
Recipe: Peanut Butter Breakfast Muffins
Posted on Substacks on January 9, 2026
Hey folks, I’m experimenting here. I usually put together a monthly newsletter on various topics, but I read about 100 articles a week, and there’s always something that catches my attention and feels worth sharing sooner rather than later. Over the last two weeks alone, I had about 30 links I wanted to share with you—way too much for one newsletter. So I’m breaking them up into a weekly newsletter instead. This one covers genuinely good health news, some overdue reflection on Deaf representation, and tackling my mountain of unread books. Not sure yet if I’ll stick with weekly or go back to monthly—we’ll see how this feels.
Published on Substack on 1/26/2026
The Americans with Disabilities Act will turn 36 later this year. In the last thirty-five years, there has been a requirement for accessible hotel accommodations. And yet, NPR just published an investigation showing that wheelchair users are still dealing with the same frustrating barriers that shouldn’t exist after three decades of the law being on the books.
NPR talked to 50 wheelchair users and surveyed over 200 more. The stories were depressingly familiar. You call ahead, you book an accessible room online, you show up… and there’s no reservation. Or the room’s been given away. Or—my personal favorite—the room exists, but it’s not actually accessible.
I love to walk. Back when I lived in DC, I'd spend hours on weekends just getting lost in the city with my camera, capturing whatever caught my eye. Those long, meandering walks were never about hitting a step goal; they were about exploring and discovering. Turns out all those hours of wandering were doing way more for my health than I realized.
Two recent studies offer encouraging news about movement and how it protects us, and the takeaway is that how and when you move matter less than moving itself.
Winter's here in Kentucky, which means less sunlight and thinking about vitamin D. Most of us aren't getting enough—[35% of American adults](https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/a69797685/foods-with-vitamin-d/) fall short. I'm one of them. Both my doctors told me I wasn't getting enough, so I've been taking 1,000 IU supplements year-round.
What really surprised me: targeted vitamin D3 cut the chances of a second heart attack in half for people who’d already had one. I knew deficiency could affect health, but I had no idea it was tied specifically to heart health.