The weekend is here! The weekend is here! And almost too quickly … The weekend is gone! The torch is extinguished. And my Olympic work is done. I sort of can’t believe I’m saying this … but I can’t believe the Olympics is over, and I’m sad to see it end. I won’t say it…

Today is Friday, the third-to-last day of the Games. The rain has returned and the visibility/conditions at Whistler and Cypress mountains is terrible. The fact Olympic competition is being held today (tomorrow is supposed to be worse) is unfortunate. There’s been a lot of DQ-ing, DNFs and crashing. Spectators (okay, parents and friends of athletes…

Wednesday afternoon, I read a Twitter posting by skier Julia Mancuso. And with that, I learned of the death of freeskier CR Johnson, an amazing skier and even more amazing guy. A few years back, I worked with CR on a story about his recovery from a traumatic brain injury he suffered in 2005. I…

This blog begins with a story. Several years ago, my friend Lisa did one of the most special things a friend has ever done for me. At the time, I had never been to Europe, but Lisa was an old pro. We talked for months about taking a trip together, and planned to go in…

It’s baaaaack. The rain, that is. I knew it was too good to be true. Today, I spent the afternoon at an event with US Ski Team cross country athletes Kikkan Randall and Andy Newell for the Century Council, an organization geared at stopping underage drinking. (It was actually way more fun than it sounds,…

My year of enlightenment apparently starts today. The year began with a three-hour trek to Whistler while toting about 1,000 pounds of luggage. (My bags are like wet Gremlins, multiplying by the day.) Then I settled into my new home for the next week, a condo on Whistler Creekside, grabbed some lunch and got a…

Last night, a group of us went back to Gotham Steakhouse for dinner and, I believe, set the Winter Olympic record for dining. We arrived at 7:45 p.m.; we left at 1 a.m. In between, we ate way too much great food, drank a wonderful bottle of wine and had great conversation. It’s just one…

Today, I got to write a story I’ve wanted to write since I started working at the magazine. And meet someone I’ve wanted to meet since I was 12 years old. At 2:30 today (Saturday), between the early and late hockey games, I had sushi and a beer with Jeremy Roenick, the guy who doomed…

This morning, (It’s Friday, by the way. Don’t worry. I had to ask, too.) Lindsay and I decided to take a personal day. After we finished writing our “what to watch tomorrow” stories, we headed to the city with no real schedule and definitely no plan. “We’ll just let it happen,” I said. After fighting…

I climbed out of bed around 9:30 this morning. And then I kept climbing. 8 stairs to get out of hotel, 4 to get on the bus (and off again) and 77 to the Sky Train platform. Sure, there was an escalator. But in Canada, people do not “stand on the right, walk on the…