Accountability is the beginning, of course. We need to be accountable to ourselves and to others for our lives; anything less is a dereliction, a refusal to engage life fully. And to be accountable one must have a way, a path, or a plan.
In many ways, then, accountability is the opposite of depression. It is [...]

It is so quiet here. Besides the snow sucking in the white noise, the absence of television creates more silence than were it merely turned off. When my parents, who live twenty-five minutes away, and my brother, a University of Chicago sophomore, visited for an hour or two over the weekend, I could feel their [...]

Takoche [Toke] was born on [my] ranch, son of a big wall hard man named Cov and a Sherpa porteress. They had met on a winter trek we made from Namche Bazaar into Island Peak next to Lhotse. We were going in to climb, she was the porteress called The Tall Slender One whom we [...]