April 2014

Hoarding: More Than Just a Mess Judith Kolberg is accustomed to walking into cluttered homes. As a professional organizer, the Decatur, Ga., woman helps clients straighten messy closets, tame stacks of paperwork, and bring order to their chaos. In the past 25 years, she’s also entered...

Having just seen the blockbuster show at New York's Museum of Art and Design,“Out of Hand: Materializing the Post-digital,” about a future when your meals, clothes, car, even your home can be 3D printed, (see link for related story), when we ran across another glimpse...

Editor’s Note: It all started with a Wellness Conference that took place in March at The Peaks Resort & Spa. The talks featured part-time Telluride local Dr. Alan Safdi, who offered evidence-based medical findings for healthy living in easily digestible sound bytes. The series was so popular,...

Telluride Film Festival, (August 29 – September 1, 2014), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films. Submission period begins April 15, 2014. Film Entry Form is available for download at www.telluridefilmfestival.org. Shorts and...

Let’s talk about something besides weather. Let’s talk about life, the miraculous body, the wonders of the heart, the agony of loss. And what is spirit? And what is love? And what are we here for, anyway? [caption id="attachment_40264" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Word Woman[/caption] That’s...

Better late than never: Happy Easter all. Thought everyone might enjoy these recipes for Easter-- and post Easter celebrations. We found them in HuffPost Lifestyle. Egg hunts and chocolate bunnies are great and all, but what we really want on Easter Sunday is a beautiful meal...

The Neue Galerie’s big spring show, “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937,” was close to  three years in the making, but the pay off in the timing was that it opened more or less on the heels of the discovery of...

My sermon for Palm and Passion Sunday was titled "Hating Life." It explored the words in John, "Those who love their life will lose it, and those who hate their life will save it."  Are we called to a life-hating faith or is there a...

Master wordsmith David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies,  All In The Timing and Time Flies. All In The Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season, was the most performed play in the country...