Happy Equinox! It’s the day of equal day and equal night, when the sun rises due east and sets due west. Unlike the solstices, when the sun swings to extremes, the equinox is all about balance—light and dark, within us and in the cosmos. I just came back from an...
Happy autumnal equinox! Now, you can finally say fall is here — yesterday was still summer. Today, the sun enters Libra, the marker astronomers and astrologers use to signal the shift of the seasons. The equinox is one of only two days each year when the sun rises...
From High School Flashbacks to Eclipse Healing Even now, upperclassmen can make me feel like I’m back in high school—awkward, nerdy, and definitely not part of the “cool kids.” Luckily, my husband balances out my introversion, so I get to be a cool kid by association....
Even now, upperclassmen can still make me feel like I’m back in high school — awkward, nerdy, and definitely not one of the “cool kids.” I suddenly find myself slipping back into teenage insecurities. Not good enough. Not fitting in. Total weirdo — into stuff no one...
I Met Two Italian Twins on a Hike—and What They Asked Me Changed Everything Last week, I was out hiking when I met two gorgeous Italian twins. They were nervous about bears, so we started walking together, chatting as we went. Naturally, the conversation turned to...
Hiking up the back side of Smuggler, I came across two, nervous-looking, Italian twin sisters. Worried about running into bears, I assured them they were safe — as we know, it’s relatively common to see a bear but beyond rare to be attacked by one. Fears assuaged, we...
The Secret I Carried For years, I carried a secret: I was desperately addicted to cigarettes. The shame was crushing. I was terrified anyone would find out. I’d hide, like a junkie in back alleys, making sure no one knew. I even had boyfriends who never discovered it....
While the party roared inside, I slipped into the night, shadows covering me — I had to get my fix. For years, I was a clandestine nicotine junkie. My shame was crushing. I went to extreme lengths to hide it, like a meth head — slinking off like a fiend into Aspen’s...
From Shock Therapy at 11 to Venus in Leo: Why Your Creativity Is About to Explode When I was in middle school, I attended this hippie log cabin school outside of Aspen where we put on plays that were wildly inappropriate for our age. I’m talking A Streetcar Named...
As kids at the Aspen Community School, we were cast in plays that were wildly inappropriate for our age — think “Streetcar Named Desire” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” In the latter, I played a nurse administering shock treatment to my friend Andy, who...
