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To achieve your goals, you need to build habits that work

Right now, I’m leading a month-long Whatever It Takes program designed to foster habits that lead to goal achievement. Personally, the practices I’m building are: Reading at leas...

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Money Savvy

Mancos mapmaker chronicles John Wesley Powell’s epic 1869 journey

In the Southwest, river runners and river rats have the same great, great grandfather. Our patriarch is the one-armed Maj. John Wesley Powell, who launched four wooden boats in M...

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Mars landing a remarkable feat of space flight

Greetings, Stargazers. NASA’s Mars InSight lander is designed to study the interior of Mars. InSight stands for interior exploration using seismic investigations, geodesy and heat...

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Understanding nature is critical in this changing world

If you are like me, your morning routine isn’t complete until you’ve checked Jeff Givens’ latest forecast. His blog, durangoweatherguy.com, is bookmarked on all my devices, and h...

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Durango Nature Studies

Festival of Trees a special annual holiday celebration

I have an assignment for you after you read this column: Get dressed, grab the family and head over to this year’s Festival of Trees event to support Community Connections and the services w...

DATE: Dec 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Creating Community

Drunk driver’s wife has warning

DEAR ABBY: Many wives write you about problems with their husbands who drink too much. If they live in a community property state, there’s something important they need to know. If the h...

DATE: Dec 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

What I want for Christmas

I’m no different from my friends. I’d love to open the paper on Christmas day and see that world peace had broken out, hunger was now gone and that the United States now had political partie...

DATE: Dec 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

The real China challenge: managing its decline

In 2009, The Economist wrote about an up-and-coming global power: Brazil. Its economy, the magazine suggested, would soon overtake that of France or the U.K. as the world’s fifth ...

DATE: Dec 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Divorcing mom grateful for new friend

DEAR ABBY: A year ago my 13-year marriage fell apart. My husband, “Rick,” will be spending the next six years in prison. I am 32 and have two boys, ages 13 and 15. The last ...

DATE: Dec 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Transgender man hasn’t told parents

DEAR ABBY: I’m a transgender male who has grown up in an area where many people discourage such things. They view what I am as a sin and me as a sinful, satanic child. My parents are aga...

DATE: Dec 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Kids add music and drama to winter season

Underneath the commercial frenzy of the holiday season, a series of music and dramatic performances by the young people of our area have quietly proceeded. Last weekend, the thre...

DATE: Dec 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

H.W. Bush and the maddening wars over his legacy

On Twitter over the weekend, the television writer Bryan Behar did something unconscionable. He praised George H.W. Bush. The former president had just died. In Behar’s...

DATE: Dec 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

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