August 2014

It’s not always easy to keep house guests happy in Telluride. Especially when they’ve been to our box canyon over a dozen times and are finding Bear Creek a little predictable. Which is why Andy and I decided to do something different with parents when...

New York Times fashion writer Ruth La Ferla, reports on the wearable technology from Ralph Lauren that will be making its debut at the US Open Tennis Championship. TENNIS HAS an emotional impact that isn’t confined to the court. Consider the ball boy, who speeds the...

August 21 to 28, 2014    Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Jupiter      Evening: Mars, Saturn Welcome to the solar month of mutable, earth-sign Virgo, the 6th sign of the tropical zodiac, one of the most poignant, productive, point-on energies of the year. Virgo takes place as summer morphs...

Sarah Fecht reports in Popular Science, about how their will be no more monkey business (at least in the creative fields of photography, video, art) due to a recent ruling by the U.S. Copyright Office. In 2011, British wildlife photographer David Slater was traveling through the...

It was a busy summer for the Pinhead Institute.  I now have a lovely insect collection (picture attached), courtesy of my 12-year-old son Wiley and his fabulous Pinhead Bug Camp counselor Chris Anderson, a former Pinhead intern who returned to teach classes for us this summer. But it's not all about me. [caption...

Deciding to become a yoga teacher can be a life changing decision, especially if you live the corporate lifestyle. The decision to teach yoga usually follows a major life event such as an injury, health problem or relationship breakdown. These are all strong catalysts to...

A long time ago and far away, say, in the halcyon (not really) days of the 1950s and 1960s, summer meant road trips, day camp, and ice cream. Labor Day is fast approaching and with the long weekend (that includes the Telluride Film Festival), the start...