Re-Thinking the Fundamentals

Re-Thinking the Fundamentals

What if you had the chance to start over with a clean slate, not with something as monumental as a relationship – normally too complex to even contemplate – but something with more definable behavioral boundaries, like a ski test card, to choose a random...

Advice for Silver Skiers & Other Tidbits

This week’s Revelation is an amalgam of important messages for any skiers looking for new skis and/or boots this year.  Its recommendations are tilted in favor of the silver skier set, if only because one new product in particular is heaven-sent for this constituency....
Snowbird Secrets: On Traverses

Snowbird Secrets: On Traverses

Traverses, as the name denotes, cut across the grain of gravity. They are the access points – access bands, actually – to the three giant spirals that radiate from Hidden Peak. They are the paths to adventure, the roads that skirt the edge of the event horizon.  Most...
The Making of a Skier:  Hand-Me Downs

The Making of a Skier:  Hand-Me Downs

I was the fifth of five children.  While I naturally lacked the capacity to appreciate my circumstances in my childhood, the fact that I was an unwelcome accident would cast a shadow across my early youth that only the passage of time and an adult’s awareness have...
Hiatus

Hiatus

To My Dear Readers and Dear Listeners:  No sooner had I posted my (wonderful) podcast with Kim Reichhelm, than I started to feel queasy.  In short order I was felled by a respiratory infection that got me in its grip and refused to let go.  I won’t regale you with my...