Thanksgiving marks the start of the holiday season. But given a divided nation and a war in Ukraine, times they a tryin' – even without your parents breaking out the photos from your awkward years, even minus the inevitable food coma – or the sadness...
Father’s Day. What does it actually mean? Mother’s Day has clear, well-defined expectations: flowers, brunch, more flowers, maybe some chocolate. But dads' day? The third Sunday of June is all about celebrating the many ways fathers and father figures make a positive difference in the lives...
Did you know the Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day? Cynics insist the holiday is when men atone for their sins of omission by buying sweethearts toasters and scant silky undergarments....
Family, Fun, Football and Feast! The start of the holiday season in nut shell. Question on the (groaning) table: If you could invite anyone in the world to your Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be? Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer shares her guest list - tongue...
The holiday is meant to celebrate fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society. For some, however, Father’s Day is shorthand for pulling out a wallet. Again. Gifts of watches and Fitbits, beard trimmers, bespoke home distilleries and grills, tickets to...
T.S. Eliot put it this way: “For last year's words belong to last year's language/ And next year's words await another voice/And to make an end is to make a beginning." Telluride's favorite Word Woman and regular contributor to Telluride Inside...
For many, Xmas is a period for the renewal of faith. But it also also a time for personal reflection - though that could be said of these past, long months of the pandemic, which have forced us to stand frustrated in the waiting room...
“Things will look different this year." Variations on that sentiment have become imbedded in the lexicon of the COVID pandemic and, with cases surging across the country, increasing stringent precautions have or are impacting virtually every traditional celebration in 2020, bleaching them of the joy....
In the Age of Corona, the virus tends to overwhelm the squash, including that of Telluride’s Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer. But today devastation shape shifts. Today Rosemerry focuses on the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (And we sing in harmony.) Note: “In the Steps...
In the Age of Corona nothing is guaranteed except change: for better (we hope) – or for worse (please no). Telluride’s Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer, who comments on the pandemic and its progeny regularly, is always on the side of the light, as one of...
