Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

On the side

Zia Taqueria supports community gardens As part of this week’s “Zia Days” celebration, Zia Taqueria is donating a portion of its profits from both its north and south locations o...

DATE: Nov 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Loving leftovers

Don’t just reheat – rethink

DATE: Nov 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

My boyfriend refuses to sync with my sleep schedule

Q: My boyfriend and I are on the road to serious commitment, but one sticking point is my resentment about his refusal to change his sleep habits to spend more time together. I work long hou...

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

What realizing we weren't a dog family taught me about being a parent

My mom said what I needed was companionship, what I needed was a puppy. She knew I had been struggling with my kids, 8 and 10, who were approaching their tweens with sass, impudence and eyer...

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

My mom knew just what she wanted to wear at her funeral

“I’ve changed my mind,” my 89-year-old mother announced one Sunday some months ago. “I want to be buried in my own clothes.” When she and my father had drawn up their burial contr...

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

These breakups really slayed: History's three biggest splits

Everyone has a story of the breakup that slayed them – maybe it was a first love or a first marriage. Jennifer Wright, author of the new book It Ended Badly, has dug up 13 breakups from the ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Son just wants to feel pretty

Q: I am wondering how to handle my 3-year-old son who only wants to wear his 5-year-old sister’s dresses and clothes. If I insist that he wear his clothes, he gets upset and breaks down in s...

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Mormon policy change is hostile to same-sex couples

SALT LAKE CITY – Gay and lesbian Mormons and their supporters are reeling over a rule change by church officials that says members in same-sex marriages can be kicked out and bars their chil...

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

Religion Briefs

St. Columba reaches out to returning Catholics St. Columba Parish invites Catholics to return to the church. St. Columba offers “Landings,” a way to further explore ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

Since 1878, convent in perpetual prayer

Nuns, community offer their support to the suffering

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

Reform Jews pass transgender resolution

ORLANDO, Fla. – The largest movement of Judaism in the U.S. passed the most far-reaching resolution in support of transgender rights of any major religious organization, saying Thursday that...

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

Filmmaker, author to share lessons of the last ice age

Separated by 13,000 years, in a strange way, the Clovis people faced the same environmental issues we see today: radical climate change, mass extinction and changes to the world. ...

DATE: Nov 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life