With snow fall comes the holiday season in Telluride and around the world. You can like the celebrations. You can lump them all into one Scroogey ball. The only thing you cannot do is ignore them. The first event of the trifecta is Thanksgiving followed...
It’s not all about pumpkins, costumes and candy – though more candy is sold for Halloween than any other time of the year. (The estimate from The National Confectioners Association is well over 500 million pounds annually.) Early days of the holiday included dead men walking and animal...
We hit the ground running (per usual) in New York, where the fall season is just getting started. Regardless, Chelsea is already setting the Pace (literally at "Super Pace") and Broadway is on fire with plays like "Hadestown" and "Betrayal," deep, dark tales that reflect...
Joining an illustrious fraternity that includes (but is by no means limited to) “Good Morning Texas,” Travel & Leisure, Town & County, W, Vogue, and Forbes, now US News/Travel hearts Telluride/Mountain Village too, naming our hometown #1 on a list of the "Best Small Towns...
The Telluride AIDS Benefit keeps repeating itself – and with good reason: it is not over until it is over. The need to Fight, Fund, and Educate ends when the HIV/AIDS pandemic ends. Which is not yet. And certainly not in Africa. Proof of that...
A favorite writer, Adam Gopnik, published the following story titled "Can We Live Longer But Stay Younger," in the May 13th issue of The New Yorker. Is aging a fact of life, inevitable, or is it a disease that can be cured? Apparently the new...
The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart’s, Polish proverb. Mother’s Day is always celebrated on the second Sunday in May, so Sunday, May 12, 2019. Though it is not a federal holiday, Mother’s Day is widely celebrated as a...
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...
Our last days in New York were the usual mix of art and theatre: galleries in Chelsea and the Lower East Side near the New Museum (with a little help from our friend, artist and long-time, part-time Telluride local Matt Kleberg). "Moroni: Riches of Renaissance...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but Fountain House is on the job every day. The nonprofit is dedicated to the recovery of men and women with serious mental illness by providing opportunities for their members to live, work, and learn, while contributing their talents...
