I thrive on challenge. I seek it out. Celebrate it. And teach others to do the same. I firmly believe in the growth that can come from stepping outside the all too familiar boxes people operate within on a daily basis. And my job jibes with...
Officially, I was supposed to do nothing. I was supposed to lie on the same couch where I had been for the past nine days and rest. And ice. And breathe. I had just had the quintessential ski town surgery, an ACL repair. This after having...
Summer in Telluride is fast becoming a fond memory of sunlit adventures with friends and family, BBQs and bare feet. For most people, summer in the region is a great time to be outdoors doing the things we love every year. But I am program...
PROGRAMMING WITH STRONG NUMBERS, A NEW INCLUSION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND A NEW HOME! Soon the streets of Telluride will see fewer kids clad in green and yellow Telluride Academy shirts. As the Academy winds down its 32nd year of programming, it seems there...
Editor's Note: Last January, Telluride Inside...
In my sailing days I was sometimes asked: "What do you do all day?" My questioner was asking about my time in port; there was an assumption I was "busy" when at sea. But at anchor...
26th annual Telluride Academy's Mudd Butt Mystery Theater Troupe August 10 and 11 The Telluride Academy's Mudd Butt Mystery Theater Troupe is a four-week theater intensive covering all aspects of what it takes to make a play happen. Through the Mudd Butts, kids aged 10 –...
Summer is finally here, and while most students are relishing their summer break from school, a select few are experiencing a Pinhead Institute Summer Internship. Founded in 2003, Pinhead's internship program enables students to spend summers studying science toe to toe with global scientific and industry...
Last week I put my 5-½ year old daughter, Mollie, in skateboard camp. I also posted a picture of it on Facebook. All comments and “likes” from the national and international pool of friends, both real and virtual, who make up my FB world proved...
The opening night of this year’s Compassion Festival will feature a keynote address by Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas, the Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. Emiliana’s talk—entitled “Compassion: The Radical Solution to Discord and Diffidence” —is slated for this coming Wednesday,...
