Category: Do For Love

  • 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…

  • Healthy, stealthy and wise

    Telluride Times, Thursday, December 11, 2025 “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” –Jimi Hendrix Growing up, I loved this ‘70s TV show called Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as a Shaolin mixed-race monk returned from China to track down his half-brother in the American West. (It loses a bit in the translation.) Kwai-Chang Caine’s flashbacks featured…

  • After the fall

    Telluride Daily Planet, e-edition, Friday, November 7, 2025 He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring We have the privilege of living high in the mountains, where our fall season…

  • This isn’t about sugar

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 24, 2025 “I love to eat — Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.” — Kim Kardashian In college, about a million years ago, I distinctly remember a moment of flopping myself down on our senior house couch and peeling open a full-sized…

  • Outlandish creatures

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 14, 2025 “Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as a prayer.” – Dean Koontz “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” Albert Schweitzer It…

  • Un-mixing it up

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 14, 2025 Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.  – A.A. Milne I have a friend who is an expert at Mind Mapping, which is a personal visual representation of starting with a central idea and…