No question about it: Burning Man--particularly that big event in the desert--is changing. There are many contributing factors, but I'll offer one I think is more dominant than most people know to know…
If you've been thinking about going to Burning Man, prepare to walk a lot, bike a lot and, maybe, on occasion, hitch a ride on an art car going where its going, while…
When I attended my first The Love Burn (and likely last, as it was not my favorite burn -- at all) I wasn't camping with The Sky Bar, but KJ Donoghue -- the…
I saw this graphic on a Burning Man camp organizer's Facebook post and it surprised me none.
Tickets to this event have been selling out, desperately sought and coveted when got.
But not this year.…
There are many miracles in life. Big ones and small ones, gargantuan ones and micro ones. Many of these miracles, in my experience, are matters of timing and synchronicity.
Yet whether large or small,…
Back in the day when I was new to a divorce, new to reclaiming my life, new to the hula hoop and new to the very small community of hoopers I'd met along…
For those who've been to Burning Man (the big one) and regionals locally, there is this thing often called "playa magic." While I don't know of any official description, I'd offer it's in…
Life goes up and life goes down. Events go here and events go there. Emotions and experiences and feelings of hope and belief, or despair and desperation, go up and down and here…
There are moments in life when you discover things about yourself.
And others.
Back in the day, I was the theme camp organizer for a lovely group of people at Burning Man (More Carrot, or…
JOMO.
Apparently, it's a term, a word, an acronym that has been around for awhile, though it's one I only heard for the first time last night at a party of mostly Burners-not-at-Burning-Man who…
First, to all of you who wrote on my Facebook timeline or sent me messages on my birthday, thank you! It's wonderful and overwhelming at the same time.
As one who spent…
It rains during Burning Man. Not much. Not often, but it does.
It rained the first evening on the first night of the first year I attended Burning Man. The rain came around 5:30…