Courtesy of the author
- I'm a mom of three, and my husband and I went to Burning Man last year.
- I stressed about what to wear for weeks before going to the Playa.
- I had so many new experiences, which, as a middle-aged woman, is something refreshing.
"Isn't that the thing in the desert for young people on drugs?" My mother-in-law probed when I asked her to stay with our teenage son while my husband and I went to Burning Man. Here I was, a middle-aged mother of three and recovering attorney, setting out to the middle of the Nevada desert without much more than some goggles and bikinis.
I worried I wasn't ready, I wouldn't fit in, or I'd get lost in a dust storm, never to be seen again.