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My garage is currently hosting multiple ghosts.  It is a [...]

This is my last column preceding the third or fourth [...]

Gravity’s force roots us into the Earth and into ourselves, [...]

Tying my trail running shoes in the frosty morning, shivering [...]

To see is to make another feel seen.  Reciprocity is [...]

In the oceanic journey of life, I had been lately [...]

The drive to Chukar is no joke, certainly not a [...]

Reckonings are fearsome, but inevitable.  To come to peace with [...]

Walking through an unfamiliar passage, harder and harder to find [...]

One of the immense joys and intentions of an extended [...]

As soon as school let out, Violet and I hightailed [...]

Arteries and capillaries, carrying lifeblood like so many Paths of [...]

From its inception as a recreational playground, this Valley’s rampant [...]

With my best friend’s wedding taking place last November in [...]

Tensions are building, mounting upon decades of friction.  The social [...]

Luscious and succulent, the fruit causes the Limb to sag [...]

Given the immutable laws of astrophysics, we are all only [...]

Life can beat you down if you let it, if [...]

As the life support machines beep their cryptic signals, as [...]

There is an apocryphal story in our family, a tale [...]

Stepping into a new set of bindings, ones attached to [...]

Low tide means that the moon’s gravity Is at an [...]

As war again rages at the geographical confluence of several [...]

Deeply flawed as we all are, there are infinite mistakes [...]

Every molecule, every thought, every movement, everything exists inextricably from [...]

Headphones in, cranking tunes, with a bounce in my step, [...]

Awaiting the ubiquity of the self-driving automobile, a revolution long-promised [...]

The menu abounds with tantalizing options But I only have [...]

Enlightenment is a burden.  Since having my eyes opened to [...]

There are very few people, if any, that hear my [...]

With only mild reluctance, I have returned to the Valley [...]

Staring at the water is to face A timeless breeze [...]

When my ex-wife Lauren and I got married, we had [...]

She giggled when she called out The next street on [...]

With a homebase on the Continent, there are an overwhelming [...]

Descending from our apartment at 36 Rue Ballu into Place [...]

Violet and I have decamped to Paris for the summer.  [...]

I can write short sentences.  I can write with basic [...]

Life is a pyramid scheme and most of us are [...]

Like most winter visitors to the Eagle River Valley, especially [...]

Seated across from my dining companion, my gaze is locked [...]

Ever since I transitioned from infant to toddler, I have [...]

Blustery winds buffet the expansive windows as snow piles up [...]

The basic requirements for happiness are within reach:  the offering [...]

As we trod through the myriad stalls of Borough Market, [...]

Approaching slumber with an exhausted body And a full brain, [...]

Ensconced as we are in mountain suburbia, perhaps we have [...]

We are on a gargantuan rock, hurtling at speeds that [...]

This Valley will keep you young, if it doesn’t kill [...]

At the risk of concerning my mother by reciting good [...]

My friend Johnny, besides being a lights-out barista, compassionate human, [...]

To the extent that this country still has any luster, [...]

Ten uninterrupted years have passed since my first Open Bar [...]

I am exceedingly fortunate to have biking buddies and ski [...]

Perched seemingly perpetually on the balcony, with the setting sun [...]

Not to be too risqué in a family publication, but [...]

His car sits idle in the driveway Waiting for an [...]

Trucking into the left-hander followed by the little rock garden [...]

Dexter shuffled restlessly in his seat, a wooden contraption contrived [...]

Some joker stole my gravel bike last week.  As any [...]

It may come as some surprise to you but I, [...]

Enshrouded in mist and mystery, removed physically and temporally, the [...]

Roland sells doughnuts.  Or, rather, he is the intermediary through [...]

Chill I am repeatedly told as if It were so [...]

“I’m late.”  The words echoed off the mahogany paneling of [...]

Alighting at the Gare du Midi, stepping out into the [...]

With our eyes we see outward, take in the external [...]

You are enough.  Enough is not a minimum benchmark, it [...]

Ski towns, despite the strong push for modernization, retain vestigial [...]

Pronounced in a certain fashion It sounds more like mole [...]

I am a sucker for Instagram marketing.  Despite being intellectually [...]

Her footsteps on the stairs are my cue to assume [...]

Huddled in small groups, conversing in halting politeness, it was [...]

As the first slivers of dawn creep up the mountainside, [...]

Hemmed in at all sides by throngs of pedestrians, the [...]

“Workers of the world, unite!” The admonition, the plea, the [...]

Casual is for slacks Worn by unfashionable drones On the [...]

The handsome graying of his beard is a physical manifestation [...]

I catch an appropriate amount of flack for the high-minded, [...]

My best friend is nine years old.  Our camaraderie is [...]

No matter how far or how high, my bike always [...]

The hisses and crackles emanating from the burning pine and [...]

Subtlety and humility are not characteristics of this age.  Turned [...]

With the oceans as his domain, Poseidon had free reign [...]

Stealthily, the plate is placed in front of me and [...]

On the drive up the hill for family dinner, Violet [...]

Predestination never enthused me as a concept:  abdicating responsibility for [...]

Society craves categorization, wants a convenient way to distill complex [...]

The 4Runner crawled admirably, if roughly, as its tires articulated [...]

The early morning fog hung heavily upon the expanse, presaging [...]

The tiles were full of animation, of expectation, of elation.  [...]

The machines beeped and whirred and annoyed, cicadas of the [...]

Shenanigans abound as we round out the ski season.  The [...]

As Pepi took his fabled powder run down the interminable [...]

The flowery nature of my writing has drawn criticism from [...]

My neighborhood is gloriously awash in children; their peals and [...]

Typically locked into the rhythm of a zipper line, I [...]

I consume quite a bit of ski media.  Coffee table [...]

From preschool at the local YMCA straight through to law [...]

We are currently hurtling through space at an absurd speed, [...]

Dear Diary, 2020 was so mean to me.  I mean, [...]

Family dinners in my clan are epic affairs, not just [...]

Cavalier enough to ignore the sage advice to download the [...]

Milestones, while temporally predictable, are nonetheless arbitrary as they concern [...]

The MARTA train doors hissed open, revealing a scene of [...]

Dichotomies define my existence.  Jewish and Catholic, reckless and disciplined, [...]

The surrounding foliage is an aureate blur in my periphery [...]

I have long struggled to shed my childhood penchant for [...]

His face cast in the iridescent glow of several late-model [...]

Flames torching the willing tinder with more ferocity than even [...]

There is a divide rising in this community, one that [...]

The hammock is strung up close to the burbling brook, [...]

Despite Fukuyama’s premature pronouncement, we have decidedly not reached the [...]

This is a time for compassion. This is a time [...]

Oblivious, he set out for his usual evening stroll.  The [...]

Sky blue eyes twinkling with mischief and love, a massive [...]

Faced with a crisis of indeterminate length, our inclination is [...]

This is a community of givers, of doers, of the [...]

Happily quarantined chez nous, Violet and I have systematically moved [...]

As a relentless optimist, I am prone to visions of [...]

Alpenglow Law, LLC founding partner T.J. Voboril has been selected [...]

She was a social creature.  You couldn’t walk with her [...]

Friends, Clients, Colleagues, and Community Members, As we stand on [...]

We eat a lot of apples in our house.  Violet [...]

As the flakes continue to fall, the vertical feet passing [...]

The normally loquacious gaggle of girls was surprisingly quiet as [...]

My family operates on a strict “no news is good [...]

Unbeknownst to the reveling hordes that descended this holiday season, [...]

On a monochrome evening, we descended the steep staircase of [...]

Millennia of interreligious bloodshed has instilled a distrust between factions [...]

Crises have a way of warping the space-time continuum.  The [...]

Owing to a pernicious case of pinkeye, I just spent [...]

I am not mad, I am just disappointed.  With parental [...]

America’s self-mythology - that doctrine of exceptionalism that undergirds so [...]

Papa was a proud man, a hard-working man, a provider, [...]

There is a disturbing, albeit limited, truth in the maxim [...]

Take your index and middle fingers and reach for your [...]

With a faint chill in the morning air, kids rowdy [...]

She stood there with her arms crossed and I could [...]

Grains of sand whipped his face, a sting preferable to [...]

If you visited any major metropolitan area in June, you [...]

We are born from water and to water we will [...]

Maneuvering through this complex, fearsome, fascinating society requires self-survival techniques [...]

There are things that we think we know, of which [...]

With a sidelong glance and a big grin, she blasts [...]

With an effortless gait, he ambled onto the sun-drenched patio, [...]

The toddler is strapped into her high chair, an applesauce [...]

Attorney T.J. Voboril, a founding partner of local law firm [...]

Humans are a comical bunch.  We wear clothes to shield [...]

Eschewing the solitude of the singles line, I moseyed into [...]

The headlamp beam illuminated the tails of the skis in [...]

The general manager of a luxury hotel once explained to [...]

We float on a sea of words, are buffeted by [...]

Records are meant to be broken, but promises are supposed [...]

The human brain is a complex computer that far outpaces [...]

The last of the turkey and cranberry and andouille sausage [...]

The student body sat rapt and respectful as the veterans [...]

Packed into a sweltering hall during the entirety of the [...]

The tectonic plates of our fractured country shift and grind [...]

Stepping off the plane at Hartsfield, the nostalgia hit me [...]

You sit bolt upright, clocking that you set your phone [...]

The dates on the calendar blaze with fluorescent intensity, pulsing [...]

Eighth-grade social studies class.  A sea of gangly limbs, bad [...]

Violet postdates the Sumerians and Babylonians by many millennia, so [...]

Success has its burdens.  The founders of our burgh were [...]

Like Voldemort, hers is the name that should not be [...]

The ostrich’s head is buried deep in the sand, a [...]

The storm clouds of deep frustration appear at the edge [...]

The words flowing from her mouth were all the more [...]

For as much as I enjoy normal modes of conversation, [...]

Attorney T.J. Voboril, a founding partner of local law firm [...]

The gala started thirty-five minutes ago and you are still [...]

His favorite café used to be located on this boulevard; [...]

The swish of our skins gliding on the refrozen snow [...]

A snowy winter Saturday night and the Valley crackles with [...]

The hoo-dee-hoos and catcalls echo through the trees, their branches [...]

T.J. Voboril, Partner at Alpenglow Law and Immediate Past President/Communications [...]

The difference between life and death, failure and success is [...]

The lush brown soil parted ever so slightly, a sapling [...]

The biological impulse that charges through me anytime it snows [...]