by Sarah Gold | Jul 16, 2024
Joy and terror: Those are two aspects of traveling alone that I recently experienced in just a matter of hours. On a solitary trip to a remote New England island in the dead of winter, I’d spent the afternoon strolling an empty, miles-long stretch of beach, where...
by Sarah Gold | Oct 30, 2023
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....
by Sarah Gold | May 22, 2023
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...
by Sarah Gold | Sep 17, 2021
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...
by Sarah Gold | May 29, 2021
When the distinctive guitar riff suddenly throbbed from my countertop speakers, I was at my kitchen sink, innocently washing asparagus. It was a sonic blast from my long-ago past (and the deep archives of my iPod library): the twangy opening cadence of the B-52s’...