Visionaries: The Real Tango Diva: An Interview with Marina Palmer
Author Marina Palmer stopped her moving feet long enough to give us an inside peek into her dancing, her new book, and what she’s doing now.
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Wellness: Red Mountain Spa, Utah: Head North to the Sun!
by Robert Painter Red Mountain Spa and Resort, located in the little community of Ivins, Utah, is a fabulous spa where you can enjoy specially prepared, healthy gourmet meals, wander through a labyrinth, hike the red rock trails and commune with nature—all the while enjoying the region’s unusually temperate climate and relatively mild winters. Ivins,…
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The Grand Tetons, Wyoming: Entering the Current of Grace
by Gigi Ragland In June of 2004, the Tour de France occupied much of my thoughts. The race—on its ninety-first anniversary—marked Lance Armstrong’s bid for a record-breaking sixth consecutive win. That same year, I was training for a cycling tour of my own. Yet whereas the Tour de France consists of twenty stages of grueling…
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Wellness: Nuevo Vallarta Mexico: Real-life Experiences on Mexico’s Pacific Coast
by Nancy Bernard Please note that there are absolutely no lies or exaggerations in this account. It is, however, an incomplete report. * * * * Dear Mom, Thanks so much for my birthday gift! I still can’t believe you gave me a week at your time-share. Mexico is absolutely gorgeous, and the Grand Mayan…
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Destination Review: Washington, D.C.: Atomic Spies, Fab Food, and Guppy Love
by Andrea Clarke Before I arrived in Washington, D.C., I had an A-list itinerary of places to see: the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, Capitol Hill, Georgetown, and the easy-going suburb of Adams Morgan. As I planned my agenda during the forty hours it took me to get to Washington from Melbourne, I couldn’t help…
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Activity Review: Fly Girl Paragliding Academy
by Shanti Sosienski “We just might fly today,” says Chris Santacroce, 31, owner of Superfly Paragliding Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah. “Santa,” as he’s referred to in the paragliding community, and I are standing at South Point, a muddy, somewhat snow-covered parking lot on the top of a long sloping hill. It’s hard to…
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Opinion: Cultural Downfalls
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly how many things have dropped off the deep end of our cultural landscape. And I shudder to bring up what I’m about to bring up in the midst of so many more monolithic, troubling items which blink with de-sensitizing regularity across our American radar screen. In just a few short…
