Large Format Photographer: Summers Moore

Meet Summers Moore, another local artist/photographer. Summers lives near Carbondale and is number 9 on the 7th Annual Roaring Fork Artists Studio Tour, June 4th-6th. I first found Summer’s beautiful photographs of Africa hanging on the walls of La Maison, a fine furniture store down in Carbondale....

How Well do you Know Aspen?

When we lived in New York City Michele and I, desperate to vacate the city on the hot summer weekends, rented a room in a house in the Hamptons, sight unseen. The day we drove up to the horseshoe driveway, filled with parked Porsches, we looked at each other in fear. We were hoping for jeeps and jalopies...

Listening to your Children

Last Friday I put on my ski clothes, as I got the boys ready for school, and my adrenaline was pumping in anticipation of letting loose all of my pent up aggression as I skied through the freshly fallen snow. If you live in a ski resort, you live for snow, lots and lots of snow. When it doesn’t snow and...

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...

Watching The Movie Where The Wild Things Are With My Boys

My excitement to see the film, Where The Wild Things Are, was deflated when I read some mixed reviews about it. I was not ready to suffer through another children’s film where my children and I leave the theater moody and quiet without any desire to discuss the film. The film, Cloudy With a Chance of...