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In Telluride, around the globe, who doesn't like a feel-good story about the triumph of the underdog, especially in times like these, when underdogs are really under the weather – and almost everybody is an underdog. That's why movies like "Breaking Away," "Rocky" and "Strictly Ballroom" get standing ovations even from the most jaundiced audience.

So Telluride, let's hear it for the girls: a local fiber artist and a local sculptor are winners at the World of Wearable Art Awards Show in New Zealand. But we will let Amy Jean Boebel and Sue Hobby tell it in their own words. See next page.

Note: Their garments were flashed on the screen at the International Media Breakfast.

28 September, 2009 /

by Sue Hobby and Amy Boebel

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After 26 hours of travel, we got to Wellington at 10 am.

The day we got in we went to the dress rehearsal for the show - it is held in a huge space and was packed with people taking advantage of the discounted tickets. The show runs two hours long without an intermission which they alert the audience to - so the bladder challenged can scoot out.  Sue, Luci, Jeanie, Helen and I bought a bottle of champagne and some cups and settled into the second row in front.

There are seven catagories of garments and our section, "Folded," includes 29 outfits. In total, there are about 165 pieces worn by 40 models

25 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear susan's conversation with Karen Korona]

Karen Korona pic

October 2 – 4, the Telluride Yoga Center, The Peaks Resort & Spa and Lorrie Denesik welcome yogini/healer/transformational teacher Karen Korona to town for an three-day intensive designed to enhance self-awareness and healing through yoga practices, including meditation.

Do you think sitting quietly for at least 10 – 20 minutes a day examining your thoughts as if they were butterflies is vintage Elizabeth Gilbert ("Eat, Pray, Love")? If so, you might want to, well, examine your thoughts.

One definition of yoga is mastering the field of attention. Meditation is the way, the payoff, of countless hours of asana (poses) originally designed to build strength and stamina to – guess – sit in meditation.

24 September, 2009 /

Telluride locals, Amy Jean Boebel and Sue Hobby are on the way to New Zealand. The sculptor and the fiber artist recycled and fashioned garments from aluminum steel that were accepted into WOW, the World of Wearable Art Awards Show, the most prestigious event on...

22 September, 2009 /

My six day hike began with a warm up outing through classic Valasian pastureland.  Our group of eight women stayed at the elegant Lindner Hotel in Lukerbad, home to 30 mineral spas.  We had coffee at a wonderful farm off of a carriage road that was tree lined with cows mulling along the pathway, cow bells and all. 

The 8 mile hike had an elevation gain of 2750ft.  We had lunch at Fluealp Kapelle with a lovely chapel on the far side of a suspension bridge spanning a small limestone ravine.  The descent was through a lush woods that ended at a hut where we celebrated with a cold beer and blueberry tart.

21 September, 2009 /

Waking up at the hotel Edelweiss in Switzerland, with a crisp breeze in the air and a sprinkling of rain had our group of eight women hikers a bit tentative as we set out on our bus-train-cab transfer to Mund.   After surviving the 12...

20 September, 2009 /

[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook talk about bows] According to Telluride Inside and Out's fashion queen, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, it is  time to tie one on. This week we are talking about bows. High end designers such as Chanel and Chloe have...

18 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's interview with Caycee Ames]

Caycee Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts wants to give you the tools to rub people the right way.

Director Caycee Ames of The Connecting Point (and spa manager at the Hotel Telluride) offers a 600-hour/ 20 credit esthetician certification, including coursework in skincare techniques (facials, waxing) plus reiki, ayurvedic therapies, reflexology, aromatherapy and spa therapies. Successful completion of the program enables graduates to sit for the Colorado State Board Exam to become a licensed esthetician.

16 September, 2009 /

[Editor's Note: In time for the 16th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, this weekend, September 18– 20, anthropologist/cook book author Dr. Susanna Hoffman has come up with a recipe for elk (or other game meat) and brews.]

by Dr. Susanna Hoffman
April Cabin 013 Denver is Telluride's big sister city today, but back in the days of the wild, wooly West both were prosperous mining towns.

Young Denver was a rich gold-rush city, a way station for many wagon trains and cattle drives, and a merchant capitol where intrepid folks crossing the mountains could stock up on whatever goods they needed. Back then, Denver was relatively small, edging towards half million hardy souls, surrounded by open plains and, just up the road a piece, mountains teeming with game. In young Denver, it was easy to eat buffalo, elk, moose, and pronghorn. Any good butcher had the meats as did some of the finer eating establishments such as El Rancho, The Old Navarre, and the Wiltshire Country Club. I never lost my taste for the game morsels I acquired as a girl and mourned their disappearance from shops and restaurants as more and more people, along with mega-chain grocery stores, invaded my hometown.  

16 September, 2009 /