By Dan Lambert The word has fallen out of use since the late 1800s, but you might hear its echo this time of year wherever streams carve channels through the land. Listen for the sound of water rushing over rocks […]
Category: Column
Altitude Sickness, Column
From unwashed gym socks of a teenager to my ski boots: stenches of a reformed slob
Remember those socks that sat all year in your high school gym locker? Calcified, petrified with sweat, they felt like sandpaper putting them on; they smelled like a kimchi factory staffed by gangrenous skunks. Had your mother known that they […]
Column
Enjoy up markets but be prepared for down markets
By Kevin Theissen Here’s a stock market prediction for you: It will crash. Winter is coming. Wait, you mean spring, right? Nope, winter in the market is coming. We are currently in an eight-year bull market. Bear markets, defined as a […]
Column, Generation Y
Ski movies: “Cold Prey” (2006)
By Brett Yates The title of this piece notwithstanding, “Cold Prey” is not technically a skiing movie; it’s a snowboarding movie, insofar as it concerns sports at all. More importantly, it’s a slasher movie: a group of frisky young adults, […]
Column, Looking Back
Tweaking our passions
When you reach your retirement years, hopefully you will be able to do the things you love. Your hobbies and passions in life probably had to take a back seat to work and family responsibilities during the years you were […]
Column, The Movie Diary
Diamond in the rough
By Dom Cioffi I was in Nashville, Tenn., this past week for a marketing conference. This was my first trip to the country metropolis known as “Music City.” And while I spent most of my day attending lectures and workshops […]
Column, The Outside Story
Drumroll, please
By Bryan Pfeiffer Trees speak many languages, their leaves whooshing in summer and trunks creaking in winter. At the onset of spring, trees become sounding boards for courtship. Before the thrushes and warblers and sparrows arrive to sing from branches […]
Column
Forest bathing, corruption, and cauliflower
By Marguerite Jill Dye Did you know that essential oils fall from the trees to bathe us with healing properties? Inhaling phytoncides improves immune function. Being surrounded by nature reduces anxiety and hyper activity. It puts us in balance with […]
Column
Staying humble, applying tanner
My first men’s physique show By Kyle Finneron “Men’s physique debut, you’re on deck!” the announcer said. The other competitors and I looked at each other in a panic. I grabbed a handful of tanner and started to smear it […]
Column
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble
By Kevin Theissen “It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so,” wrote Mark Twain. In 2016, NerdWallet commissioned a survey to get a better handle on Americans’ thoughts about lying when money is involved. It’s interesting to note which money-saving […]