Here's an informative article that appeared in the Huffington Post, How To Turn Negative Emotions Into Your Greatest Advantage: In our relentless pursuit of happiness, it's easy to shove aside, make light of, or otherwise evade negative emotions. But the truth is that unpleasant feelings are...
[caption id="attachment_35659" align="alignright" width="240"] Lunch with Esther[/caption] It was a typical day about town with a friend: morning tea, a round of errands, a long lunch, a visit to a museum, shopping, and a massage. Typical if the friend is Esther White. And the town, Chiang Mai. Esther – ...
[caption id="attachment_35627" align="alignright" width="240"] Pasith[/caption] This time credit goes to our sometime Telluride neighbor Sunny Griffin, owner of Astara Cosmetics, also a resident of Chiang Mai, Thailand. She told us in no uncertain terms that we could not leave Bangkok without a day trip to Damnoen Saduak...
Day #2 began with a ride in a long-tailed boat along the canals of Chaophraya River, a rite of passage for Bangkok virgins. The tour guide representative at our hotel, again the Royal Orchid Sheraton, arranged the hour-long tour. Long-tailed boats or Ruea hang Yao are a...
First stop, Jim Thompson Museum and House. The story begins with a larger-than-life hero: handsome, rich, urbane, widely accomplished and a one-time CIA (actually OSS, the forerunner of the CIA) operative. Packed tight as it is with moral certainty and physical action, Ian Fleming could have...
[caption id="attachment_35477" align="alignright" width="300"] Redford & Chandor plot a scene. Image from movies.com[/caption] Been over this ground before. The consensus among attendees is that the 40th annual Telluride Film Fest was the best in the history of one of the best film festivals in the world....
Amanda Faison did a fine job, over 12 months, putting together a list of Denver's best chefs, restaurants and dining trends, her picks published in the October issue of 5280. Our "local," Twelve, made it on the list. Here's what Amanda said about the place: 15...
On Tuesday, October 22, SPARKy Productions and the Michael D. Palm Theatre co-host a screening of the National Theatre of Great Britain’s hugely popular production of William Shakespeare’s "Othello." Otherwise known as "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice," "Othello" was written in 1603 –...
Fundraiser with LIVE theatrics by Telluride Theatre, presented by Telluride Theatre and The Palm, 11/24. For tickets ($15 in advance), click here. The book is ludicrous. A young couple stumbles into a castle inhabited by weirdos from the planet Transylvania including Dr. Frank N. Furter, a...
[caption id="attachment_35380" align="alignright" width="300"] Village People (after)[/caption] Looked outside lately? There's snow in the high country (yippee!!) and at times, on the ground. T-shirt weather is definitely over – at least as far as anyone can say anything definite about the weather. But before offseason and...
