Second Chance: Cat People Vs. Dog People
Among the pet lovers in America, the world seems to divide between dog people and cat people – with dog people outnumbering cat people. And that is an issue since there are m
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Great Recipes to Jumpstart your Day
If you are reading this post in the morning, a cuppa and doughnut at your fingertips, you may want to check out this blog by Cole Mellino that appeared in EcoWatch. We’ve all he
Stressed? Dr. Weil Touts This Breath Technique
Came across this short, but dense and important blog by Lizzie Fuhr in in popsugar.com. In it, integrative medicine guru, Dr. Andrew Weil, promotes a breathing technique that he g
Snow Sunday: Climbing Mountain Quail with Teenagers
To be honest, at the start, there wasn’t very much enthusiasm about hiking up Mountain Quail, a ski run perched at the outer edge of Telluride’s Black Iron Bowl. It sits at rou
Second Chance: Puppies & Preventable Serious Stuff
I love puppies. I love their roly-poly little bodies, their teeny, tiny, waving tails, and their milky sweet puppy breath. So seeing them in the Critical Care Unit at CSU when I di
Meditation & Your Brain: Changing Your Mind for the Better
More compelling reasons to meditate by Leigh Weingus in the Huffington Post. Which should give you more compelling reasons to attend the 8th annual Telluride Yoga Festival, which
TIO in Hawaii: Whales, Turtles, & Surf, Oh My!
Not long after we finished our marathon run around America in early November, Sus and I decided we wanted to take a “warm break” this winter. Susan hasn’t
Telluride Yoga Fest: New Year, New Intensions
Namaste passes $285 and Guru passes $385. Purchase tickets here. The 8th annual Telluride Yoga Festival, July 9 – July 12, plans to offer over 100 classes, meditation sessions,
Local Navigators Bring Health & Hope To West End Residents
Tri-County Health Network’s Navigator Program helps residents deal with complexities of health care The San Miguel watershed, although known for its natural beauty, contains some
WINTER SUNDAY: Mommy Culture and The Cold, Hard Truth
Okay, full disclosure: I used to be that person, the one who cringed when the airplane seat next to me was occupied by an infant. The waitress who was unhappy when families
Second Chance: Prancer & Tundra
It is a New Year, so new things are meant to happen that will give me a new outlook on life, right? So what exactly is something really new that could happen to a homeless pet a
RE:treat, Off the Cuff: Yoga, Anti-Aging
Back in the early 90’s when I was a girl of 12, I had a school friend whose Mum just radiated a healthy, natural beauty. She didn’t wear make up or fancy clothes. She
TIO in Arizona: A Stop at La Posada
What does a giant crater in Arizona’s painted desert have to do with a grande dame of a hotel? Not much. Yet. Sooner or later the Winslow Arts Trust will establish a major museum
Telluride Mountain Club: Promotes BCA Link Radios in Backcountry
In an effort to increase backcountry safety protocols, the Telluride Mountain Club promotes the use of Backcountry Access Link Radios. Over the past 20 years, Telluride Mountain Cl
San Juan Mountains Weather Report ~~ Monday, 1/12/15
The San Juans are currently between storms with partly cloudy skies and warming temperatures, but by this afternoon an upper level low pressure trough currently forming in the Grea
Snow Sunday: When It Snows… Ski
It’s Thursday morning December 18th. There are four or five inches of new snow, and a thousand reasons why I shouldn’t be in the lift line at 8:45a.m: The Christmas cards I hav
San Juan Mountains Weather Report, 1/10/2015
Clouds are beginning to move into the 4-corners this morning ahead of the next San Juan storm. By later tonight/Sunday morning scattered snow showers will increase as an upper leve
Best & Worst Diets of 2015
U.S. News ranked them, Huff Post curated them, and now you get to see which diets work and which don’t. Hint: Mediterranean & Weight Watchers, good; South Beach & Vegen
Second Chance: The Dog Poem
My name is Frankie and I have the honor of writing the first Pet Column of 2015. (The downside of that is that only homeless pets get to write this column and I would much rather
World’s Top (Boozy) Yoga Vacations
Remedy Yoga in LA expects students to smoke some cannabis before arriving at the studio and then think of their mats as “private magic carpets.” It is a glittering generality,
Mediterranean Diet: Why It Makes Sense
We know all about it. Just shy of the stroke of midnight you added “dieting” to your list of New Year’s resolutions – before dashing to the ‘frig for just one mo
Happy New Year? Maybe Not for Some Species
We are busy now trying to actualize what we resolved, champagne glass in hand, to accomplish in 2015. But how about this sobering news found in a blog by Anastasia Pantsios in Eco
Second Chance: 20 Great Years & 2015 Glance
The year 2014 was another notable one for Second Chance Humane Society, marking our 20 year anniversary and highlighting how far we have come. Twenty years ago there were no reso