Category: 2026

  • Report from the front

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 5, 2026 A little over a year ago, I wrote in this column that I had started volunteering with a text-only crisis line, a non-profit organization I’d read an article about and sensed might be a good fit for me. I took the 30-hour training and committed to 200 hours, or…

  • That gut feeling

    Telluride Times, Thursday, January 22, 2026 My long and intimate history with fiber (you have one, too) goes way back to at least the 1970s, when a fiber revolution was underway and things like Kellogg’s (now Kellanova) All-Bran cereal and Metamucil canisters began appearing on Formica counters across the U.S. My dad—I’ve said this before—was…

  • Keep calm and keep moving

    Telluride Times, Thursday, January 8, 2026 At some point in his life, my father — or Lt. Colonel Dad, as I am calling him now — decided it was “unladylike” to do sports. So, right about the time it mattered most to my body, my brain, and my hormones — and under added pressure to…