It was a familiar scenario: The run was blue, the sky bluer still, and I was cruising down 8,765-foot Mount Whitehorn in Banff National Park in Canada. Packed powder was flying up from the edges of my snowboard into the just-below-freezing air. I was grinning beneath my ski mask. ...more

January 11, 2009

So many mountains, so little time. How do you choose a different ski resort to try out this winter? ...more

October 12, 2008

My son has moved to New York City. And I'm okay with it … sort of. When he first told me he was moving to New York, my reaction was the typical maternal instinct—panic! Because that's what mothers do. It's in our job description. ...more

July 28, 2008

A canal levee ruptured early Saturday after heavy rainfall, pouring more than 3 feet of near-freezing water into hundreds of homes and stranding 3,500 people across a square mile in their desert agricultural town, authorities said. ...more

January 6, 2008