What You Need to Know to Have a Great Time at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado
Great Sand Dunes National Park is a great place to visit in Colorado as long as you plan ahead!
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Fall Weather Arrives, Easing Pressure to Make “Good Use” of Sunny Days
If you’re new to the Denver area and you’re worried that today’s rainy weather is a harbinger of gray skies to last until next spring, fear not. This is a rare treat here. The slogan “Colorful Colorado” has always seemed like an odd choice to me, driving hither and yon across this brown and yellow … [Read more…]
Small Town Parades
My family moved out of the Colorado suburbs to a more rural area when I was 14 and I was thrilled about it. Although it was nice to walk to school in the suburbs and to live in a neighborhood with lots of kids my age and a rec center with swimming pools in cycling … [Read more…]
Postcards From A Morning Walk
I got up early to walk this morning after a 6-week hiatus (I was overdoing it and hurt my knee*) and realized that my morning walk is a lot more important to my ability to be kind during the day than I ever knew before! Apparently my demons of impatience and general misanthropy can only be … [Read more…]
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Yesterday morning along Colorado’s Front Range many of us woke up to a couple of inches of snow. This was especially peculiar as the day before, I spent the morning at the Denver Botanic Gardens with a group of second-graders, all of us in tennies and short-sleeved shirts and blue skies, blossoms and bees all … [Read more…]