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Editorial Feature: Robin Arzon x Specialized

I was hired to launch Specialized’s women’s digital magazine, Your Ride, Your Rules. As Editor-in-Chief, I wrote the feature articles, developed the editorial calendar, created workflows, and directed photographers and other editorial contributors. “Most likely to be the Oprah of fitness.” It’s what you’d expect to see scribbled in the margins of Robin Arzon’s high…

Profile Interview: Hannah Barnes

I was hired to launch Specialized’s women’s digital magazine, Your Ride, Your Rules. As Editor-in-Chief, I wrote the feature articles, developed the editorial calendar, created workflows, and directed photographers and other editorial contributors. It’s been said that to succeed in bike racing, one must reach deep into one’s “suitcase of suffering” to pull out the…

Do Not Squander Your Life

One morning, during the predawn zazen—in between the velvet, inky silence and the deep, sonorous tones of the rin-gong—there is an especially long meditation period, or so it seems. Time seems fluid here, elastic. A minute feels like an hour. An hour is a lifetime is the blink of an eye. Time is everything and has no meaning at all.