November is the time of year when people leave towns like Telluride for warmer spots such as Mexico, Arizona or California. The mountain weather is unpredictable, restaurants close and those residents without kids in the schools flee. Yet, on any given November Sunday in southwest Colorado,...
Sus and I have done it again: Just over eleven years ago, we arrived at her parents' new apartment in Hackensack, NJ, to help them move in. On September 10. Now we have just returned from a two-week trip to Europe with the idea of spending...
[caption id="attachment_24780" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sandy, NASA Earth Observatory[/caption] Any environmental blog this week has to talk about the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. I’m going to write about ecosystem restoration. The two issues are, in fact, closely related. What does restoration have to do with hurricanes? Quite...
Emily Brady Koplar earned a degree in economics from Boston University. Then she followed her bliss. Koplar went on to study fashion at New York's celebrated Parsons School of Design in New York, spending her 20s working for the likes of Ralph Lauren, Vivienne Tam and...
Editor’s note: It’s no secret. The Telluride region is dog heaven. Unless you are one of our furry friends who gets caught in the maw of neglect and abuse. Then heaven is on hold until Second Chance Humane Society comes to the rescue. Second Chance...
Last Friday, Sophia Cinnamon, our VISTA student, and I were pleased to join nearly 40 others in Montrose for the Farm to Cafeteria Conference put on by Carol Parker and the Valley Food Partnership. Elaine Brett of Slow Food Western Slope started us off with...
Susan has spent a lot of time in Paris; much less so for me. Paris was a natural stop driving back to London from Torino, but we had no plans, depending on serendipity to have Paris be a big part of our trip. Seerendipity lives. We...
[caption id="attachment_24656" align="alignleft" width="300"] Torino and the Alps, Sunset[/caption] We returned. Most vagabonds never get there. And that's a miss. Turin (or Torino in Italian) is a very interesting town in the northern Piedmont region, Italy's first capital (in 1861) and home to Italy's royal family,...
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...
