(editor's note: Around the Viebrock house, Valentine's Day is a high holy day. So to celebrate, we are publishing works from Telluride regional poets, Enjoy!) And Love Said, You’ve Still Got a Thing to Learn, Dear, about Solitudeby Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer“When we...
(editor's note: Around the Viebrock house, Valentine's Day is a high holy day. So to celebrate, we are publishing works from Telluride regional poets, Enjoy!)Mirageby Sandra Dorr (from Desert Water)Years of shouting, slamming doors.Breaking the small dishes,leaving the room in mid-air --vanish into the ringing...
(editor's note: Around the Viebrock house, Valentine's Day is a high holy day. So to celebrate, we are publishing works from Telluride regional poets, Enjoy!)Not Just During Sunsets or in Candlelight, Butby Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerThere was that day in the grocery store beside the kiwis...
(editor's note: Around the Viebrock house, Valentine's Day is a high holy day. So to celebrate, we are publishing works from Telluride regional poets, Enjoy!)Even Though I’m Partial to Wordsby Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerOut the window, through snow, I see the irrigation ditch linedwith gray cottonwood...
Editor's note: Telluride Inside... and Out welcomes a new writer to our pages. Tracy Shaffer is an award-winning playwright and actress, realtor and ass-kicker, who has worked in New York, Los Angeles, and the Denver Metro area. Founder of Thriving Artist Alliance, a member of the Denver Center Theatre Company, a Chameleon’s Stage Playwright, and mother to sons, August & Gabriel. Tracy has been to town to participate in Jennie Franks/Sparky Productions Telluride Playwright's Festival. She is about to star as Mrs. Robinson in an upcoming production of "The Graduate" at Denver's Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 E Colfax Ave, six miles east of the State Capitol in Aurora, Colorado. The show runs from February 12 – March 14. Show time on the weekends are Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. For tickets call (303) 739-1972 or visit www.aurorafox.org Look for Tracy Shaffer on TIO for whatup in Denver.
A Cougar and Her Spots
by Tracy Shaffer
I’m in rehearsal, which is usually no big thing, but this time it’s for the iconic role of Mrs. Robinson in the upcoming production of The Graduate.
by R. J. Rubadeau
Following the well attended opening seminar at the Wilkinson Library on January 6th entitled Publishing 101 YourBookBiz© has begun to post the materials presented and to begin working through the tight tasks and timelines required to take a book from finished manuscript to book sales in nine short months. A unique partnership has been formed with the public library, Between The Covers Bookstore, Sirius Publications, and Telluride Inside…And Out, to supply the writing community a single contact and resource point for advancing your manuscripts to publication. A jointly sponsored project, Gatsby’s Last Resort: A Telluride Murder Mystery by author R. J. Rubadeau have already completed the first two tasks on our list: establishing a publishing business (Sirius Publications) and have begun the process of securing peer readers and completing the final self edit.
by Kris Holstrom
Editor's note: TNCC's Kris Holstrom took the adage about "out with the old" literally. The culmination of her holiday trifecta was a purge. ps: Kris says to tell you the picture isn't of her house.
Fresh face on old walls
The new year is a great time for a fresh start. At Tomtem Farm, we've been in our house for 20+ years and its age was showing. However, a bit of research, some time, a little money and helping hands are doing wonders to restore our little house on the mesa. by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerMake me more breath than gasp,more glide than grunt, more thrust than thud. Slide me, fly me, soar and coast me, skim and skate me. Rush and whoosh me. Give me wings in my feet, give me race in my thighs, give...
by Kris Holstrom
It always surprises me when the end of year sneaks up and taps me on the back. I’m convinced the speed of life accelerates annually. Regardless, the end of the year and end of a decade is an excellent time to look back at what was accomplished and to look forward to the work to come.
TNCC highlights in 2009:
