Author: Susan Viebrock

When I was a hormone-addled adolescent in the late 1960s and early ’70s, I would often look up at a poster of Sigmund Freud on my brother’s bedroom wall. The title on the portrait – something like ‘Freud: explorer of the unconscious and discoverer of...

Chicken's universal appeal is pretty logical: It can be roasted or braised, fried or grilled, cooked whole or nuggeted and dipped in ketchup. Plus, we love that it's a blank canvas for flavor, just as happy bathed in lemon and wine as it is stewed...

I am proud to say I used to work with Ben Knight. I was the journalist who covered Telluride’s cultural economy when he was the young ace photographer on the local daily, then in its heyday. Feeling print media had gotten a bit sketchy, Ben, who has been...

If you, like me, try to consume as many “good” foods as possible and eat healthfully, you will want to read this blog  published in up wave.com. You’ve proudly switched your morning bacon, egg and cheese biscuit to a slice of whole-grain toast with avocado and hummus,...

My name is Susan and I am a chocoholic. And I know I am not alone. But here’s the really good news, made official in a recent article by Gretchen Reynolds in the New York Times Magazine: the food ancient Mayans revered turns out to be...

Once bad news, overnight coconut oil became the new black dress of cooking, a miracle food with sweeping health benefits. In fact, one of my yoga students has a spouse with Alzheimer’s. She believes substituting coconut oil for other oils in her cooking has stemmed...

Yes, it’s off season in Telluride, but that really amounts to a blip on the radar before the intense summer festival season kicks off with Mountainfilm in Telluride over Memorial Weekend. Among the stand-out events that follow is the Telluride Yoga Festival, July 10 – July...

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...