A Lesson in Failure on the Slopes

It all depends on how you look at it

Vanessa Gallman
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3 min readDec 14, 2021

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When I was in my late 20s, I signed up for a one-day bus trip to the North Carolina mountains to get basic skiing lessons. It ended, however, in a real education about my limitations and how to manage them.

I don’t like cold weather and I struggle to even make graceful turns around a skating rink. But somehow I…

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Vanessa Gallman
ILLUMINATION

Experienced journalist, educator and retired opinion-page editor with occasional musings