December 2022

You’ve made a little list and checked it twice. No, not that list. Christmas is over. Your New Year’s Eve resolutions. The top 10 usually include losing weight, eating more healthily, exercising more, stopping smoking, sticking to a budget, saving money, getting more organized, being...

Second Chance Humane Society’s Animal Resource Center and Thrift Shops have been serving San Miguel, Ouray & Montrose Counties since 1994. The shelter is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday 11 to 5:30. Community veterinary services are available by appointment. View shelter pets and services online: www.adoptmountainpets.org. Go...

On the subject of the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta, New Year's Eve, Shakespeare took the high road: "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Riffing off The Bard's good will, now is the accepted time to make annual resolutions. (Next...

Deciphering the symptoms of the tripledemic players - Covid, Flu and RSV - is not intuitive. So we curated this story by Huff Post Wellness Reporter Jillian Wilson, for some answers. Three respiratory viruses are circling at a high rate right now — the flu, COVID-19...

Fashion Friday 2.0 brings back a popular TIO fashion blog, first featuring Kristin Holbrook of Telluride’s Two Skirts, now brought to you by nationally renowned fashion and lifestyle blogger Erin Busbee, a Telluride local – and sponsored by Kristin and Two Skirts. What goes around… This week, Erin shares her favorite outerwear (winter...

Quoting the dearly beloved showman Garrison Keillor: "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go though it together." That said and for those who have experienced loss - with apologies to "Carousel" – when you walk through...

 Memories of  Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths, as unavoidable as telemarketers, carols, "It’s A Wonderful Life" and, in this season of tridemics, reminders about masking and social distancing. Yet again.  Oy vey. Fa la la la…  The following is one such (very quirky...