Columnists - The Durango Herald

Lessons from past still ring true

DEAR ABBY: Years ago, I sat over lunch, reading your mom’s “Definition of Maturity.” It was shortly after my dad died, and reading it made me realize how lucky I had been. Those were all les...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Telling our own stories

If you want to see what community building really looks like, attend a performance of Raven Narratives. Last weekend in Cortez and Durango, Raven Narratives co-founders Sarah Syverson and To...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

‘Guilt crept in – what if he declined precipitously in memory care unit?

“I can't do this for one more day,” I wailed to myself after my husband of 40 years, including several years deep in dementia, baffled me with yet another irrational antic. These moments wer...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

On water: ‘Hundred years later, citizens remain disengaged’

“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.” – Unknown author Throughout thi...

DATE: Mar 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

My mother and crows: ‘Weird passion holds a lot more’

“Hello!” My mom yelled over the rolling gusts of wind, waving her hands to the crows perched high up in the aspen. “I’m Jennifer!” “Mom,” I said, ducking my head in embarrassment from the st...

DATE: Mar 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Billy the Kid lives on in New Mexico

Billy the Kid is alive and well in New Mexico, or at least it seems that way. He’s doing much better than Sheriff Pat Garrett who shot him in the back and thus violated the Code of the West....

DATE: Mar 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

A timely question about time (and temperature)

Dear Action Line: Why is the time on the sign at the old Racket Ball Club one hour ahead? Also the temp on the clock down there by Sonic is always 10 degrees higher than at the Racket Ba...

DATE: Mar 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Primergy may have ‘back door’ for solar facility approval

Under a proposed state bill, Primergy of California may have found a back door for approval to construct its massive industrial solar facility near Hesperus. The permit application to constr...

DATE: Mar 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Bride-to-be walks fine line

DEAR ABBY: I recently started planning my wedding. Half the friends I want as bridesmaids are very conservative. They think sex is sacred and should be talked about only discreetly, not joke...

DATE: Mar 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Colorado bills impact people with disabilities

With the run up to November elections and all the coverage of presidential primaries, you may have forgotten that the Colorado Legislature is in the midst of its yearly general session. Many...

DATE: Mar 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

‘Hurkle-durkling not a sin. Give yourself gift to lounge’

One of the latest TikTok crazes/wellness trends is hurkle-durkling (TikTok user Kira Kosarin). I am proudly not a TikToker. However, this term caught my eye. The Scots have some wonderfully ...

DATE: Mar 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Unacceptable for American president to have sole authority’ to launch nukes

Forty-five feet underground in a command center near Omaha, there’s an encrypted communications line that goes directly to the American president. To get to it, you need to pass through a gu...

DATE: Mar 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion