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Cruising with Top Chef!
I am a Top Chef fan. I’m talking, big, HUGE, annoyingly fanatical. I own all 10 seasons of Top Chef, 4 seasons of Top Chef Masters, and 2 seasons of Top Chef…
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Aspen Valley Half Marathon
Last month while we were planning our trip to Colorado, I was browsing through the Aspen Times and found a little reference to a half marathon happening a week after we arrived. The…
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Snowmass Skiing January 2012
It’s Day 4 of our two weeks in Snowmass, and we’ve decided to skip skiing today. We normally ski every day possible, but the conditions this year are just, frankly, horrible. The base…
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Here’s to letting go of the Routine!
It’s 3:20 on a Wednesday and I haven’t worked out yet. I have no idea what’s for dinner and I just had lunch. I slept in until 8 a.m….something I haven’t done in…
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Focusing on “Firsts”, not “Lasts”
Last week we spent fall break in California, looking at colleges. At this point in H’s college search, we’re narrowing the list down, instead of adding to it. There were six colleges she…
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On the Brink
Somewhere in the last two or three years, my 17 year old daughter has become her own person. I can’t pinpoint when it happened. It had to be more gradual than overnight, but…
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Thank God for Ski Patrol
Final Curves at the bottom of “Longshot” We spent our spring break snow skiing in Snowmass, Colorado, a tradition in our family for the last ten years. Even though my daughter, H, is…
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Us Air NIGHTMARE!!
I am so livid about H’s recent experience on US Air that I just have to put it in words. We picked her up from design camp in Raleigh, NC last week, and…
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The Rope’s getting longer…
We’re back in lake Toxaway. Picked up H from the airport last week from her 25 day backpacking trip in California. This summer she decided that instead of going back to her all-girls…
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Flipping over Speed Bumps
Just got back from a week in Snowmass and Aspen, Colorado. I had to drag my husband, kicking and screaming, away from Lake Toxaway for our little visit to the mountains out west.…
