Why do we Celebrate Thanksgiving?

I admit it, sometimes I get all bah humbug when it comes to over glorified, commercialized American traditions and so I feel the need to research and bring true meaning to each holiday and that definitely helps me to bring on the family cheer and embrace the tradition. Wikipidea says, “Americans commonly...

Sisters, ya gotta love em

Melanie-Mouse Michele dragging her son Devon for a picture As I started to round the corner into the kitchen I heard my two sisters talking to each other on the phone, “You should have seen her last night. She went crazy binging on lettuce.” “ha, ha, ha, ha…,” I said jumping out from the...

Valentine’s Day Sucks

Wade and I sat down to our Valentine’s Eve dinner and as we sat there with the candles flickering in red seeded glass hurricane lamps, the boys raced around us in circles personifying Tucker Hibbert going for the SnoCross Gold in the X-Games. Wade and I looked deeply into each others exhausted eyes...

The Holiday Twitch

My father got his three daughters on skis at the early age of three and dragged us out to the icy Vermont slopes rain or shine. I thank him for giving me a sport that gives me an absolute feeling of freedom without the fear. But in this moment in time, as I watched my friend ski down the foreboding ski...

Exploring Aspen Over the Holidays

        It was 2:00pm, getting close to that magical time of day when the sun casts its warm glow across the valley making the mountains feel gentle and inviting with their soft snow fields and majestic pine trees. As I put on my skins to hike up Tiehack a man next to me commented on...

Taken Down by Thanksgiving

Last year  Thanksgiving dinner was at our house and I fretted over how I was going to successfully turn the incredibly enormous beast of a bird sitting headless before me into a delectable feast.  My  in-laws took over the helm and saved the day, once again, tenderly basting and rotating the turkey as if...