No matter how darn organized you are, it is likely there is at least one person on your Christmas shopping list who has stopped you dead in your (very tired by now) tracks. As will this poem by regular contributor and razor-sharp wit David Feela...
Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a sporting event or concert; a charitable donation in a friend or loved one’s name; or...
The term "solstice" means "sun stands still." On the year's two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky but change little in position during this time....
Family, Fun, Football and Feast! The start of the holiday trifecta in nut shell: Thanksgiving. Question on the (groaning) table: What are you grateful for? Who will you miss at your banquet? Regular contributor and poet extraordinaire Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer answers with her moving...
On Tuesday, August 22, 5:30 p.m., at Telluride Arts HQ, 220 West Colorado, Telluride Arts and Between the Covers Bookstore host a conversation between Ken Grossinger, author, and Jennie Franks, founder and artistic director of SPARKy Productions, an activist, non-profit now dedicated to supporting Latinx...
The Telluride Art + Architecture Weekend, July 11 - July 16, provides an insider’s look at the deep well of creative talent and exclusive access to private gardens and homes in the region. Garden and home tours are limited to 250 guests. Patron Passes, which include...
Father’s Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also celebrates 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...
Is it time to decommission the Glen Canyon Dam? Talk 6/7, 5:30 - 7 p.m. Program is part of the "Water in the West Series," a collaboration between Sheep Mountain Alliance and Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. Go here for more about Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. Despite...
'The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart's," Polish proverb. Happy Mother’s Day Telluride – and beyond. We celebrate the holiday by sharing Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer's heart-wrenching, words, her pearls forming a mala, something to mediate on. Rosemerry clearly...
In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, W.V. to celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the second Sunday of May. After establishing Mother’s Day in Philadelphia, Jarvis...
