Lifestyle

My five-year old daughter is playing ice hockey, a sport with which, until recently, I had no experience. As a former teacher, ski and soccer coach, it’s weird watching my daughter do something I know very little about: I don’t have tips, I don’t know...

Emily Kuehn, our OSM/VISTA offers MLK Volunteer Day workshop and training in basic home energy efficiency in Norwood, Colorado. First, what’s an OSM/VISTA? That’s a Volunteer In Service To America through the Office of Surface Mining! Emily has been with us since last summer, working...

Although the last couple of inches definitely freshened up the slopes, that two-week holiday drought, in addition to the holiday crowds (as light as our snowpack has been, it was better than most resorts), definitely wreaked havoc on the slopes. Almost every run is either...

“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Mickey Mantle Substitute sport for game in the above quote, and Mantle pretty much nailed my naivety about skate skiing. For the past fifteen or so years, I’ve always owned...

Jack Hoffman is an irascible piece of work. My 15-year-old daughter does a spot-on impersonation of his crotchety scold: “I know what I’m doing,” he screeches in a biting whine at his son Todd. This is from the “Gold Rush” reality show on The Discovery Channel. If...

Friday is a transition day of cooling temperatures and high clouds moving into the area. The first snowfall in a long while is due to arrive Saturday evening in the San Juan Mountains.  The ridge of high pressure that has been parked in our backyard...

During the holidays, many of us solemnly swear to do Big Things to improve our lives – such as fit into those super skinny jeans. For the first  Fashion Friday of the New Year, our fashionista, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, suggests a makeover is...

As children we often visited our grandparents in southern Arizona where they worked a ranch about 25 miles southeast of Tucson. The trips always started with an announcement posed as a question. How would we like to go visit Nana and Grandpa? At that point...