Beyond Telluride

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...

For 30+ years, the Animal Resource Center and Shops of Second Chance Humane Society have been serving Ouray, San Miguel, and Montrose Counties. Adoption hours are from Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. View shelter pets and services online at www.secondchancehumane.org. “Connecting Pets, People,...

Tired of the holidaze by now, from Christmas to Chaunukah to Kwanzaa? Well then, rest assured there is one seasonal event that unites us all regardless of religious (or not) background or ethnicity: New Year’s Eve. About the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta,...

T.S. Eliot put it this way: “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language/And next year’s words await another voice/And to make an end is to make a beginning.” Telluride’s favorite Word Woman and regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out, Rosemerry Trommer, puts...

Memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths, as unavoidable as telemarketers, carols, and "It’s A Wonderful Life." Truth is those memories we bring to the holidays, besides a long gift list (and too little time), are packed in the back of our closets...

Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a concert or sporting event - or both; a charitable donation in a friend or loved...

Mushroom afficionado, accomplished basketweaver, potato farmer – and poet extraordinaire Art Goodtimes lets the Goodtimes roll in his short, but oh so sweet Christmas poem. And quoting the dearly beloved showman, Garrison Keillor: “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and...