Columnists - The Durango Herald

Have you seen the stars? Artemis, future, hope

Artemis 1 splashed down off the coast of Baja California on Dec. 11 after a 42-day mission described as a resounding success. That triggered a raft of emotions left over from the various ver...

DATE: Jan 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Marriage teeters after only 11 months

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married 11 months. We’ve been together five years and have lived together for the last three. This is my second marriage and his third. I have put up wi...

DATE: Jan 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Nathan Schmidt sees musical success

European music lovers dig on the American roots music. From aging punk-rockers doing the roots rock thing like Armchair Martian/Drag the Rivers’ Jon Snodgrass to dark-country acts like Slim ...

DATE: Jan 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Husband’s annual trip unpopular

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married nine years and have four children, ages 5, 3, 2 and 9 months. For the past three years, he has been attending a weeklong music festival where he...

DATE: Jan 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

‘Pelé’s magic doesn’t fit in a trophy room’

The simplest way to capture the achievements of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Brazil’s unparalleled Pelé, is to tally the numbers. In two decades, he scored 1,283 goals (although the exact nu...

DATE: Jan 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Former bookseller Joyce Meskis a ‘First Amendment hero’

The passing of Joyce Meskis, former owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store, on Dec. 22, provides the opportunity to celebrate her numerous and substantial accomplishments in improving the li...

DATE: Jan 2, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

What’s that Riverview pipe-thingy all about?

Dear Action Line: So many questions, so little time! Why doesn’t anybody in this town use their turn signals? Why don’t other cyclists wave back? Why ... but wait. Let’s “step” ahead to ...

DATE: Jan 2, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line

A happy new year to all

DEAR READERS: Welcome to 2023! A new year has arrived, and the last one is behind us. As always, this new year brings with it our hopes for a new beginning. Today presents an opportunity to ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Generational differences at the holidays

Happy 2023! Here’s hoping people have had a fulfilling holiday time with friends and family. I had a family Thanksgiving with people I dearly love. We gathered in Denver and all camped down ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Authentic Aging

For every season, there is a converse

During the winter solstice, I was sitting (on a beach) at roughly 21.6940 degrees N. Daylength was around 10 hours and 45 minutes. Compared to Durango (37.2753 degrees N), I had about 1 hour...

DATE: Dec 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Need integrated health care focused on brain disorders

As a result of my two guest columns in The Durango Herald and The Journal about my experiences with Alzheimer’s, I’ve received a multitude of pats on the back, hugs and messages of support f...

DATE: Dec 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Secret leads to havoc when family finds out

DEAR ABBY: I was married to a man whose family always seemed to be in each other’s business. His 18-year-old niece already had two children when she became pregnant again. She hid it from ev...

DATE: Dec 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby