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Google Bikes!
Today Google unveiled it’s new bike tool which debuts with mapped trails and bike lanes in 150 cities. It’s more than 12,000 reasons—that’s the number of mapped miles they’ve got already—to hit the trail, the path, the road, and ride your bike.
What Do Kids Know About Eating? More Than You Think.
Fifteen things to learn from the way your kids eat.
Adoption Day
Women’s Adventure magazine is doing a shout out for Alaska photos and stories on Facebook. I submit this one in honor of our now four-and-a-half-year old son on his adoption day. I read this as part of a longer piece, in court, the day he went from being a foster kid in Boulder County to having a forever family with us.
Goodbyes are Hard…
My decision to leave Women’s Adventure has been a relatively easy one, but sad nonetheless. Easy, because I have a staff in place that has handled the magazine in such a way that I’m seriously a non-factor in its success or improvement.
Winter of my Olympic Discontent
It’s no coincidence that the US Women’s Ski Jumping team started petitioning the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the right to compete in the Winter Olympics in the year 1998. After all, that’s the same year the IOC decided to add Curling instead. Yeah, I’d be ticked off too.
Jonathan Edwards, Tiger Woods, and Prop 8
Jonathan Edwards and Tiger Woods. Those two names don’t make me think about health care or golf. Instead, especially when mentioned in the same sentence, they bring to mind words like infidelity and lies.
Reading, Writing, and Getting Rescued?
We’ve all heard the stories of unexpected rescues: folks who end up stranded on a cliff face, stuck on a backcountry road mid-winter, or picked up in the middle of the desert.
When is a woman too much of a man to be a female athlete?
So, the IOC just recommended gender-testing centers to determine eligibility when an athlete exhibits sexually ambiguous characteristics. Caster Semenya, the woman who won the 800 meters at the world championships this past summer, seems to have spurred the scrutiny with her masculine build, low voice, and hint of an Adam’s apple.
Waiting for digital paper
There are e-readers and books, but as yet, no extremely portable medium offering readers of magazines the opportunity to see large format, spread-designed, breathtaking photography with text.
Waking into Winter
Living at 9600 feet near the Continental Divide in Breckenridge, CO, snow in September is far from a novelty. As a professional skier and backcountry educator, one would think that I would be getting out to ski as soon as possible.
Running Around
I’ve started learning to run. Bit by bit, day by day, I’m progressing from walking real fast to actually running up and down the road in front of my house.
Ready for Winter
This is the time of year when I try to remember everything I like about winter. I love the snow when it’s still pure and light as powdered sugar, before plows and people have muddied it up. I can spot the neighborhood fox, red coat and black-tipped tail against the white, along with deer, elk, and even black bear before they disappear to hibernate.
