June 2013

[caption id="attachment_12347" align="alignright" width="225"] Pastor Pat Bailey[/caption] Michael Dowd is the author of the best-selling book designed to build bridges. His "Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World," was endorsed by six Nobel laureates and...

Perusing the Internet for what to say about Father's Day, I came upon some interesting though relatively obscure facts about the holiday. During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’...

[caption id="attachment_31627" align="alignleft" width="300"] Red Knuckles (aka Tim O'Brien), 2010 Telluride Bluegrass[/caption] The story will get told many times in many ways, each time with a slightly different spin. My abbreviated version of the history of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this coming...

Take a look at the Telluride Summer schedule: from Mountainfilm in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, now gearing up for Telluride Bluegrass, music and yoga weekends, on through Telluride Film Festival and Blues and Brews at the end of the Summer, one could be forgiven for...

[caption id="attachment_31611" align="alignright" width="300"] From fly fishing essay inGear Patrol[/caption] Once upon a long time ago, just after I arrived in Telluride in the 1990s, my newish husband Clint engaged the young son of a friend to teach both of us to fly fish. You know...

I suppose by now everyone knows, but just in case, we found this crystal clear explanation from the group on ABC news radio online. [caption id="attachment_31606" align="alignright" width="300"] Mumford & Sons, Glassnote Records[/caption] Mumford & Sons have bowed out of their headlining slot at the Bonnaroo Music...

  June 13 to 20, 2013      Visible planets: Morning: none      Evening: Mercury, Venus, Saturn I have to admit, I am having a difficult time writing the intro to this week’s Alacazem astrology column. I want to write about Elizabeth “Bets” Stiles Patterson, a beautiful young girl who...

Telluride Bluegrass holds a special spot in my heart. It was Bluegrass that first brought me to this valley in 1997, and it was Bluegrass that made me return. When my husband, Andy, and I first considered moving here, Bluegrass was on our “top ten”...

[caption id="attachment_31535" align="alignright" width="166"] Wellness Counselor,Bridget Taddonio[/caption] This week, the Telluride Medical Center (TMC) announced new Wellness Counseling services for Primary Care patients dealing with obesity, high cholesterol, or diabetes. Wellness Counseling initiatives, like the one now offered at TMC, are on the rise as national obesity...

Residents, property owners, business owners play role in budget process Right now, Mountain Village community members have the opportunity to opine on a number of key topics. In an effort to collect as many opinions as possible a direct mailer was sent to over 1,600...