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The Glory … and the Danger
I love praying in the cathedral of nature. It’s the main reason I moved with my family to Colorado. What experience can possibly compare with the bliss of cross country skiing in fresh snow on an isolated trail in Alderfer/Three … Continue reading
Photographing Evergreen
Photographing Evergreen My Uncle John Troisi is coming to Evergreen next week on a picture-taking mission. He has traveled all over the USA over the past three or four decades to take photographs, which he turns into breathtaking slideshows set … Continue reading
Kids and Exercise
The Best Way to Battle Childhood Obesity: Get Your Kid Moving! (Photos here) I heard a debate on CPR today about whether or not government money should be spent battling our country’s epidemic of obesity. As you doubtless know, the … Continue reading
Cycling With Kids in the Mountains
I find cycling with kids is a unique challenge when you live in mountainous Evergreen. We live on a hilltop – three quarters of a mile up several switchbacks from the Bear Creek Canyon Road, above Kittredge. One kid is … Continue reading
The Swimming Hole and the Castle
On one of those late winter days when the air was unseasonably warm but the ground was still covered with snow, Lexie and I decided to take a walk in the Lair. Lair o’ the Bear, my favorite name for … Continue reading
Fire in the Back Yard
Yesterday I got an urgent text message in my cellphone through Reverse 911 that 100 homes were being evacuated near Pleasant Park Road in Conifer because of a wildfire. A fire? In CONIFER?? This is the sort of story I’m … Continue reading
Migration West
A Transplanted New Yorker in Colorado I moved my family — husband B and daughters K and L — to Evergreen three years ago from the New York City suburb of Mamaroneck, in Westchester County. It was the dawn of … Continue reading
Get your message out!
Don’t be the tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it. You may have the most amazing business or nonprofit in the world, but if no one knows about it, you have nothing. Let Hammster Media … Continue reading