Last autumn, my partner and I said goodbye to Carbondale. We packed our belongings into a rental trailer and began the long drive to Florida. We left Carbondale at 3 a.m. Glenwood Canyon had just been cleared of fallen rock and the pavement was still a broken mess, but there was virtually no traffic on […]
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¡Feliz cumpleaños al Sol del Valle!
En estos días celebramos el nacimiento del Sol del Valle, y un año de éxito. Lo que parecía un sueño descabellado y sin valor, hoy se levanta con cuerpo y con sueños. Un año de planeación, esfuerzo, cambios, pero sobre todo de victoria, ya que pese a todas las adversidades, el Sol salió para el […]
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Opinion: CVEPA on Redstone to McClure Trail
Game wardens and a few locals gathered at the old railroad siding at Placita. Word was out that the Division of Wildlife was going to release elk into the upper Crystal Valley. John Darien remembered that day in the early ‘40s as he recounted the scene to me in the barnyard at Prospect Mountain Ranch […]
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Ps & Qs: Live a great story
Last year, my husband and I made new friends. At our age, this is kind of a big deal; these days we hardly go anywhere new, much less talk to people who we don’t already know. Becca and Todd managed the Homestead at River Valley Ranch, and we instantly liked both of them. Todd because […]
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Pages of the past: Carbondale carries the torch
Feb. 18, 1982 Though they hadn’t been through two years of intermittent social distancing, folks still got cabin fever — so the Journal sought advice from Glenwood Springs psychologist Jerry Weinstock. He noted that the phenomenon was particularly prevalent in rural areas (which Carbondale certainly still was), since cities provide plenty of year-round diversion. He […]
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Lo que deberían habernos enseñado
La educación es sumamente importante, pero como en todo, siempre encontrarás huecos en lo que se te ha enseñado. La vida después de la preparatoria o incluso después de una carrera universitaria suele ser muy distinta a lo imaginamos. Recuerdo cuando elegí mi primer carrera, todos se impresionaron cuando decía que quería ser psicóloga bilingüe, […]
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Sun Signs: The Pluto Return of the USA
The past several years have been harrowing, to put it simply. From the personal to the political, the stresses of the pandemic have exhumed many things from our personal and collective histories. At a national level and through the lens of astrology, this is to be expected as the United States approaches the first exact […]
