Arriving as Strangers, Leaving as Friends on a Beach Retreat

Arriving as Strangers, Leaving as Friends on a Beach Retreat

You couldn’t find many women—not sensible ones, anyway—who’d have to argue themselves into going on a beach-and-yoga retreat at a tropical resort. But sense has never been my strong suit. NextTribe is now accepting reservations for our 2024 visit to Troncones....
The Women Who Prove You’re Never Too Old for Adventure

The Women Who Prove You’re Never Too Old for Adventure

When I met Rosemary in Papua New Guinea, she told me that she came for the birds. Fittingly, she was sparrow-like herself: petite, fine-boned, with a tuft of white hair crowning an inquisitive, blue-eyed face. She was 85, and just six months earlier she had undergone...
How Posing Nude Helped Me See Myself in a Whole New Light

How Posing Nude Helped Me See Myself in a Whole New Light

It wasn’t the first time I’d posed naked for photographs, but when my friend George asked me to model nude, it was definitely unnerving. I was in my forties, after all—long past what I considered my physical prime. I’d gotten my kicks, and more than a little...

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