When my friend suggested a baby sitter who was a male, I hesitated. I finally called out of desperation, hoping he wasn’t hot. He was. We danced around our mutual…
Before we married, I kept a tool kit, drill and ladder in a storage closet. The contents of the kit might have been a bit jumbled, but I always had…
A: There are a couple of key facts I am missing here. No. 1, I don’t know if this is a new phenomenon or if this has been going on…
75 years ago: “Officials of the Fish and Game Department have begun feeding deer and elk in the neighborhood of Pinkerton in a combined effort to save some of the…
Dr. Jim Youssef has been named one of the nation’s “315 Spine Surgeons to Know – 2016” by industry website Becker’s Spine Review. Youssef is a fellowship-trained spine surgeon who…
Associated Press file photo<br><br>A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles. Mammograms do the most good later in life, a government task force…
This was back in the 1980s, an era with its share of terrorism and social difficulties. We read the paper in the morning and watched Peter Jennings after dinner, but…
This woman wasn’t my girlfriend. She was my friend. And she was only the first in a long line of friends who helped me realize the hardest part about being…
75 years ago: “A record attendance for a Durango Chamber of Commerce meeting was recorded at the annual meeting at the Strater Hotel, when 162 Durango businessmen and outside guests…
With that one syllable, Dave Hamrick can tell how his wife is feeling. It might be a confident “pssst” if she’s happy; a quiet, deflated one if she’s feeling sad.…
The 48-year-old San Francisco-based dating coach reveals her dating low moments and how she ultimately met her current partner, Dave, in her memoir/advice tome, out Tuesday from Beyond Words. Along…
A: She is a good friend; not only can you be honest with her, but you really need to. Who knows how many other people in her life she has…
Enjoying nature with a sleeping babe wrapped in wool feels like a luxury. But the ultimate luxury is not having to worry about when I will go back to work,…
That’s not all: If a box of tissues is not in immediate reach, he blows his nose into his shirt. Not long ago, while sitting on a couch at a…
But most of us have consumed our fair share of tainted wine. The key is knowing what to look for upon opening your wine. The three most common flaws are…
This maple budino is a baked custard, but a stovetop version is also doable.Matthew Mead/Associated Press The pudding was luxuriously fatty and creamy, and the flavor was incredibly clean: maple…
In this January 1991 photo, “Durango’s Chris Newton lays in two points over Grand Junction Central’s Darin Robideaux during the Demon’s loss Friday night.”Special to the Herald/Carl Geers 75 years…
75 years ago: “Numerous cases of influenza in Cortez have necessitated the closing of schools in the town for an indefinite period.” 50 years ago: “Claude Deering is the new…
75 years ago: “Glowing accounts of the ‘Old South’ are being given by Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Lee, who, with their son and daughter, returned from a three week’s motor…
More than 50,000 worked at top-secret site during WWII
It was clear right away it was a tuna swimming past because of the distinctive bumps along its back that lead to its angular tail. And what a whopper. It…
She and a friend had been talking about Tamir, and the friend asked: “What can we do? How can we help?” Bradley kept waking up, thinking about different pieces of…
I had never thought of myself as the home-birthing, no-pain-meds, birth plan type. But two years earlier when our first baby died eight hours after a highly-traumatic hospital birth, the…
Getting into a relationship takes more than just creating an online profile. You have to use it – a lot. Hinge, a dating app powered largely by users’ Facebook connections,…
“Everything’s OK,” he said. “But did you forget it’s Thursday? And she apparently gets out of school an hour early today?” I sunk down to sit on a bench. He’d…
A: I see the need for interventions on both micro and macro fronts. First, the micro: When they are in your presence, don’t tolerate their slights. Change subjects, give looks,…
A: Thank you for this question, because many parents ask me about this. And when I read this, I see two questions: One is about introversion and one is about…
The most difficult part, many educators concur, is striking the balance between helping children understand what has happened while not making them too frightened. This latter task is particularly challenging,…
