It's around the corner. A new year approaching right on schedule. So we start making resolutions in the hope that life will be different (and better). Truth is nothing is guaranteed except change: for better – or for worse – new is the only given....
With her poem (below), Rosemerry Trommer transcends the canned rhetoric of the holidaze and goes straight to the the true reason for the season. For many, Xmas is a period for the renewal of faith, but it also also a time for personal reflection. What...
Creating holiday magic takes work - or in the case of Telluride's favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: words. Her marks on a page shine as brightly as any ornament on a sparkling Christmas tree. Find examples of Rosemerry's magical musings below – or at Telluride's...
Every Christmas is a palimpsest for the one that came before and the one before and so on back. Memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths– and as unavoidable as carols, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and telemarketers. One of our favorite writer-poets...
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be the national holiday of Thanksgiving, which evolved into a story of traditions old and new, a day of family, feasting, and football. And all that is good, but is it...
If returning to your hometown, having dinner with your extended family, and eating yourself into a food coma aren’t your bag, Thanksgiving becomes more than a little uncomfortable. Adding to that angst is your drunk uncle who wants to talk politics and "fake" news or...
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the book "Braiding Sweetgrass," is the Wilkinson Public Library’s One Book, One Canyon (OBOC) author for 2019. Telluride's third annual OBOC culminates with a visit from Professor Kimmerer on Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday, October 14. She is leading a writing...
Telluride's Friends of the Library Book Sale takes place Friday and Saturday, September 20 & 21, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; Sunday, September 22, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Free book for kids on Saturday. Email Nancy at nancylandau@hotmail.com if you are interested in volunteering....
My dear dad taught his girls love and respect could not, should not, be turned on and off like a light switch according to a date on a calendar – like Father's Day. That said, David Feela's tribute to his father, the man's surrogate today,...
When World War II began, advertisers argued that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was definitely a national institution....
