"What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?" Erma Bombeck In a letter to his daughter, Ben Franklin proposed the turkey for the official...
[caption id="attachment_36188" align="alignright" width="200"] FOX[/caption] A recent survey, conducted by Best Friends Animal Society, the Utah sanctuary that's one of the leaders in the no-kill movement, shed light on pet owners' attitudes toward the sources of pets. The study focused on people 18 to 34 years old...
[caption id="attachment_36193" align="alignright" width="300"] Halloween Pumpkin, from Huff Post Healthy Living[/caption] I am a fairly regular reader of the Huffington Post and all its babies, such as Huff Post Healthy Living. This article about the (upcoming) traditional Thanksgiving food orgy caught my eye. It was not...
[caption id="attachment_36151" align="alignright" width="300"] Golden Oscars (from Show Biz)[/caption] The girl can't help it. I try to look away, but find myself drawn like a moth to light to articles speculating about films that might make it to the Oscars. Everyone who attended knows #40 was...
'That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying “As you wish," what he meant was, “I love you.” And even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back," from "The Princess Bride" A classic fairy tale with all...
You may want to, ahem, duck the whole thing – or you can toast Thanksgiving as Turkey Day. But what's implied by the name of the celebration is more than consumption. It's gratitude. According to a recent article in Time magazine, "being thankful is strongly linked with...
![Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House., 11/16/1949 Harry S. Truman Library [National Archives Identifier 200138]](https://tellurideinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/truman-thanksgiving-s.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_36145" align="alignright" width="200"] Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House., 11/16/1949Harry S. Truman Library[National Archives Identifier 200138][/caption]With snow fall comes the holiday season...
[caption id="attachment_36140" align="alignright" width="291"] "The BIg Chill"- Before[/caption] When the weather grows cold, snow and snow fun on the mountain are definite maybes, but one thing is for sure: the holiday trifecta is upon us. In Telluride that means brushing off the cobwebs from the anodyne...
There are the obvious things one can be thankful for in Telluride. The beauty of elk grazing on the valley floor, wispy clouds playing hide-n-seek amongst the mountaintops, and of course, early-season snow. But, in the cracks and crevices of our valley’s magnificent geographic features,...
Buffs like us who had been following the film festivals and their picks in general release, know that Alfonso Cuaron's techno blockbuster "Gravity" is, pardon the pun, flying high. Here's what we said about the movie in our review of the 40th annual Telluride Film...
