Father's Day is all about celebrating the many ways fathers and father figures make a positive difference in the lives of their offspring – although some are saints; some Santini; some both depending on the day. Or, as in Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer‘s singular case, he...
The first public Father's Day event was held in 1908 in West Virginia to honor 362 miners who died in an explosion there. It was later made a national holiday by President Richard Nixon in 1972. The most popular gift is a necktie...
Music on the Mesa (MotM), the free concert series in Norwood, is now in its second year. Below announcing the lineup for the two shows at the San Miguel County Fairgrounds, June 15 and August 10. “We’re in for another energized storm of sound and motion...
Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...
Glamping adventures can be found in nearly every corner of our Big Blue Marble – including just down the road a piece (about an hour away) from Telluride at CampV in Naturita. The place is redolent with history so it offers guests somethings old and...
Join the Telluride Foundation for a co-sponsored FREE event with Telluride Science. RSVP is required. Donor reception from 5:00 - 5:45 p.m. preceding the panel discussion which starts at 6 pm. RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE. Go here for more about the Telluride Foundation (back to 2009). Go here...
Before he was either a saint or a holiday, Valentine was a Christian priest martyred in the third century. Some legends say he was executed for defying an edict against conducting marriages for Roman soldiers whom the emperor believed would fight better without family ties....
"Valentine’s Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is." (Attributed to an anonymous source.) Case to underline that point from an open Valentine's Day cynic, regular contributor, poet extraordinaire David Feela. His, umm, "tribute" to Cupid's...
Marketing guru Scott Haltzmann wrote a book entitled “Eight Ways to Win Your Wife’s Heart Forever.” When it was published way back in 2006, woman gave it as a gift to their hubbies on Valentine’s Day. Among the helpful hints for happy living together: a...
Synchronicity: Simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Example, the Los Angeles fires and related devastation on the landscape and soulscapes. And Max Walker Silverman's latest triumph, a story about community, love and hope in the aftermath of...
