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It was the night before my final ascent up Mount Kilimanjaro.

I was freezing, excited, nervous, dizzy, hungry, exhausted and feeling plenty of...

I was flying 4,000 feet over the tristate area a few years ago.

It wasn’t the NY-NJ-CT tristate area I know well.

And I wasn’t in a...

Last week I was eating the most delicious mushroom-infused trout at La Tapera, a tiny restaurant on the edge of El Chaltén (you may remember...

I’m in Patagonia, Argentina and I keep hearing laughter. The kind of from-the-gut-belly laughter that's contagious.

I think it's what joy...

Last month, I decided all of a sudden that I wanted to take on a new hobby. Mushroom foraging.

Yes, foraging. For mushrooms.

I was marginally...

Do you know the difference between a viola and a violin?

Exactly. Neither did I.

But my older sister Karen was already playing the violin, so in...

Why is it so hard to break a pattern - in a relationship or in the routine of our days - even when we know that change and newness can help us...

Have you ever been on vacation and completely, successfully disconnected from your worries in real life?

Maybe you have fun, but also feel...

Last week, I wrote about dropping my daughter off on her month-long program and how hard it was for me to part, also knowing she’d do some...

Can you remember the last time you didn't have to answer to anyone for 48 hours?

My 16-year-old daughter is about to spend 48 hours on a solo...

You know that feeling you get when joy overwhelms you?

I just took my first plane ride in over a year and it was what freedom feels like. 

I'm...

“It’s like I’m spinning.”

This is what I heard from two women in my workshop Monday, and it struck me… that was once...