Discussions of Community, Civility and Compassion kicks Off with Transition to a Slower Future: How Community Resilience and Slow Money could lead to less work and more fun The Telluride-based New Community Coalition partners with the Wilkinson Public Library in "Building Common Ground", a series funded...
When you live in Telluride, skiing another Mountain is like having an affair. It’s new and exciting and you are ecstatic at the possibilities. At first, you admire everything it has that your Mountain doesn’t -- less bumps, more above-tree-line terrain, wider chutes. You rush to...
Good things last. Fashion classics are just trends with long tails. Metallics have been "trendy" for a long time now, including gold in its different shades, primarily yellow and rose. In June, 2010, Two Skirts' Fashion Friday featured rose gold. Now our fashionista, Kristin Holbrook, wants...
These days in Telluride, it’s very out to bring a bottle of wine to a dinner party. If you want to crush it, and I mean crush it, bring a growler of Telluride Brewing Beer instead. When I sat down and had a pint with Tommy...
With funding from Just For Kids, our Telluride-based New Community Coalition is putting on a Renewable Energy for Educators training in Norwood this Friday. We’ve had lots of fun in the past bringing in the Science Explorers training in which teams of kids and teachers...
Ask anyone at Telluride Adaptive Sports Program, and you will hear that Jane Ekstein was a gutsy woman, wonderful to be around, and one who would work so hard to be able to enjoy skiing in these mountains she came to love. At a small, quiet...
In some towns moms get together for pedicures, coffee, yoga or spin. In Telluride, on Friday mornings, I make an effort to get together with fellow moms to ski. For Telluride moms, skiing provides a space to focus on one thing—getting down the mountain. There are...
"Fascinating Forensics with Peculiar Powders", Monday, January 23, 2012, 3:30 pm at Wilkinson Public Library. FREE! Join Pinhead for some super sleuthing and some crime scene investigating. We will determine "who done it" by testing mysterious powders and looking at fingerprint samples. This lab intensive program...
The dreams of my youth were of wilderness and searching for its heart. Getting to the edge of wilderness where you could jump off and out of civilization usually involved a vehicle of some kind. The irony was that the wilderness was more accessible because of that...
Spring collections are arriving to stores, but spring break is months away. While the grey skies deliver the much anticipated snow to the mountains, the chilly weather is nearly omnipotent, from DC to Boston, San Francisco to Denver. With the thermostat at 30 degrees and...
