There’s nothing more magnetic than someone who loves something so much that they transform before your eyes when they talk about it. The words glow in their mouth like a wand that’s chosen its wizard. I feel grateful when I meet these people for taking the time to appreciate something about the universe that I or any other beholder might have overlooked. This is what it’s like talking to Dave Hayes, The Weather Nut. Voted “Best Local Meteorologist” for ten years straight in the Valley Advocate, Hayes (who does not have a meteorology degree) is clearly doing something magnetic. Hayes’…
Looking back, my old Jeep Wrangler never stood a chance. The first time I took it off-roading was on the winding dirt street behind Hartwick College’s campus about 100 miles…
Having it all isn’t a myth—just ask Babba Rivera. The Tuxedo Park, NY resident, mother of two, wife and founder somehow finds time each day to do school drop-offs,…
Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick exclusively for The Mountains I’d only just returned from a morning trail run in the southeasternmost corner of the Berkshires when I got a call…
Almost four decades ago, I was a contributing editor to Interview magazine. I’m also an insomniac. Consequently, I routinely wrote at night and went to bed late. That is, until…
Photography by Jordan Millington-Liquorice At the I-can’t-believe-I’m-here ultra luxe resort, Nemacolin, “nothing is impossible” is much more than the founder’s motto. It’s become the driving force behind every action,…
Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick About eight years ago, I started writing (and posting on social media) a weekly e-mail blast I dubbed 5THINGS2LIVE4 (Five Things To Live For) to…
Photography by Douglas Friedman (courtesy of Patti LuPone) My heart rate is quickening as I approach Patti LuPone’s door at her sprawling home in the bucolic town of Kent, CT…
Photography by Quentin Bacon When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn…












