by Kristina | Jan 19, 2020 | Advice
Congratulations! Your toenail turned all of the colors and is going to fall off. Don’t despair. Follow these tips* to embrace the 6-12 month regrowing process to welcome your new nail with grace and dignity. First things first, mitigate the pain. Whether you...
by Kristina | Oct 20, 2019 | Advice, Skiing
The coin-colored Subaru Impreza sits low with the weight of metal and plastic and human flesh. We drive purposefully south, into the good weather window we hope will carry us all the way to the summit of Tahoma (Mount Rainier). Going into the weekend, so full of...
by Kristina | Oct 13, 2019 | Advice, Skiing, Turns All Year
It takes a special breed of human to want to hike and climb to ski every month of the year. They possess a passion for unpredictable adventures and a love of manky snow, and mostly they are owners of many layers of Gore-Tex. These weirdos are my people: we are Turns...
by Kristina | Jul 11, 2019 | Advice, Life
We’re swapping the canopy off the truck again because we want the silver one, no the white one, no actually the silver one is better let’s put that back on. I am helping my spouse move this big, heavy, hulking behemoth because all of our really strong friends...
by Kristina | Apr 25, 2019 | Advice
Pink, round, and bearing the Mini Mouse insignia along each arm, I got my first pair of glasses in the first grade. I said goodbye to any social status I enjoyed and joined the crew of “unpopulars”. I dealt with it as best as any 6-year old can, but...
by Kristina | Apr 11, 2019 | Advice, Life
The sunlight warms the pasty skin beneath my toenails as I feel my toe-hairs rustle gently in the springtime breeze. After many months trapped inside closed-toed, sock-stuffed, freedom-restricting shoes, my feet are released, yet again, into the world. It’s a sunny...
