Columnists - The Durango Herald

Membership in organizations matters

I fondly remember my first membership to an organization. I was 10 and saved up money from babysitting and my allowance. It was the 1980s and before the internet was readily available, so a...

DATE: May 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local First

Friends skeptical about reconciliation

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I were married nine years. He unexpectedly left me when COVID-19 first hit. We were apart for a year and eight months and ended up divorcing. I filed because, even ...

DATE: May 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Woman obsessively monitors rival

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 45-year-old woman who has been dating “Ben” (53) for two years. We have known each other for more than 20. He treats me like a queen. Before our dating, he had a girlfriend ...

DATE: May 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Social drivers of health

As a country, we spend nearly 20% of our gross domestic product, or more than $4 trillion annually, on health care. Nevertheless, we continue to lag many other countries in health-related ou...

DATE: May 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Libraries are great places to find shared interests

In 2022, Pine River Library staff members met with more than 70 local residents and community leaders to ask a couple of questions. The first was, what do you think are the biggest challenge...

DATE: May 26, 2023 | CATEGORY: Shelf Life

Live, laugh and sing, but don’t say goodbye

Last Sunday, the Durango Choral Society celebrated another successful year with a festive party. Simply titled, “Live, Laugh, Love: Cabaret,” the dinner, drinks, schmoozing and musical potpo...

DATE: May 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Howling Coyote headed to region

Jim Sobo is a career kick-starter. The musician and promoter, one time kicking around Los Angeles but now around Arizona, is the kind of promoter who likes to get unknown talent in front of ...

DATE: May 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Pool patrons disregard towel protocol

DEAR ABBY: The other day I went to the pool in my neighborhood and found there were four lounge chairs with towels on them indicating they were “reserved.” They are the best chairs in the po...

DATE: May 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Boyfriend steps up to act as caregiver

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my boyfriend for three months. We’ve had our ups and downs. He’s more into me than I am into him. I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and he has offered ...

DATE: May 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Jilted wife hesitant for 2nd chance

DEAR ABBY: I married a recovering addict, and for years he did great. We made a lovely home and family together. Then one of my husband’s drug buddies (a woman) resurfaced. My husband had an...

DATE: May 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Food as an offering of love

In the harried pace of a typical day, food often is reduced to only being a means to an end. It is often something we don’t consider much – just a way to refuel the tank and keep going. I wa...

DATE: May 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

Should bench be benched? Well, take a seat

Dear Action Line: Could you dig up some dirt on the “cob bench” thing in Buckley Park? It was kerplunked there years ago without permission. Winter was not kind to this lumpy brown mass....

DATE: May 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Action Line