“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”- Charles Schultz. Or a poem by regular contributor, poet extraordinaire David Feela which, according to its author, is not "a gushy traditional love poem, but certainly gushy about romance…" Because on...
Martin Luther King (MLK) was a rain-maker, perhaps the rainmaker, at the dawn of our nation’s ongoing – and much challenged of late – initiative to right the wrongs of slavery and promote socio-cultural diversity in America. In 1964, the African American baptist minister won...
You’ve made a little list and checked it twice. No, not that list. Christmas is over. Your New Year’s Eve resolutions. The top 10 usually include losing weight, eating more healthily, exercising more, stopping smoking, sticking to a budget, saving money, getting more organized, being...
On the subject of the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta, New Year's Eve, Shakespeare took the high road: "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Riffing off The Bard's good will, now is the accepted time to make annual resolutions. (Next...
Quoting the dearly beloved showman Garrison Keillor: "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go though it together." That said and for those who have experienced loss - with apologies to "Carousel" – when you walk through...
Memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths, as unavoidable as telemarketers, carols, "It’s A Wonderful Life" and, in this season of tridemics, reminders about masking and social distancing. Yet again. Oy vey. Fa la la la… The following is one such (very quirky...
The following is a note from the Telluride Museum family. Winter hours, 11am-5pm, Tuesday through Saturday. (Closed Sundays & Mondays.) Go here for more about the Telluride Museum. “May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.” - Lisa Kleypas Welcome back...
With increasingly cold weather and the holidays bearing down upon us, it may be hard to find reasons to be grateful, especially when immersed in the seething cauldron of over-the-top behavior that defines family gatherings - or, for that matter, the daily headlines: knives are...
More candy is sold for Halloween than any other time of the year. (The estimate from The National Confectioners Association is well over 1/4 of the candy sold each year in the US.). But the holiday is not all about pumpkins, costumes and candy. Early...
The following is a note from the Telluride Museum family. Go here for more about the Telluride Museum. "And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and Autumn was awaked." – Raquel Franco Where, indeed, did our summer go, I ask? A few...
