Thank you and finding the dance

This has been a week of highs and lows both personally and in the news. I am so grateful to have this community of supportive friends to get through it all together.

I have just a few hours to write this morning, and then I'll be hitting the trails with my son. He's learning how to cross country ski as well as go downhill.

I grew up skiing but was never really that good. I loved it, but I lacked the grace of my father and brother, who would sail down the hill in effortless arcs, skis close tog...