Last summer, I went camping in Phoenicia with my six-year-old daughter Penelope and her mother. We’d migrated here from Lake Tahoe after getting divorced and priced out of our housing…
Photography by Arthur Elgort / Philadelphia Orchestra He’s adorable. That was truly my initial thought when I first met Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Is this the most appropriate reaction to being introduced…
Photography by Shannon Greer Fan-girling Ruth Reichl is tricky. With a career that’s bursting at the seams with remarkable accomplishments—from celebrated restaurant critic for The New York Times to serving…
I’m really a happily garrulous, agreeably “C’mon, let’s just do it” kind of guy, but I’m starting to feel like The Mountains’ version of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Last…
Photography by Winona Barton-Ballentine I’ve lived in the Hudson Valley long enough to know that there are two prevailing design aesthetics. The first we’ll call the “general store,” with its…
Photography by Natalie Chitwood for THE MOUNTAINS The joys (and pitfalls) of surviving a genuinely interesting life—a life precisely like the one the woman I’ve been entranced by for the…
You’ll come for the spa and rebook for the fun. For those who may have experienced Mohonk Mountain House in a different era, the newly updated property with its now…
Taking the Eurostar for a recent two-month stay in Paris from my four months in London, I was thinking about all those trips I took on Amtrak from Hudson, New…
There are several cities around the globe that live on my personal “obsessed list” and, until I landed in it, Helsinki wasn’t one of them. In the spring, I emerged from…
