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Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald: Is Your Stress Response Stuck In The 'On' Position?
The survival instinct designed to give us tools to fight or flee has turned on us. Now that it is on inappropriately, this response can have the opposite effect. Instead of saving our lives, it can contribute to insomnia, depression, panic attacks, and a host of other health concerns.
Shan Wells: 10 Years Ago: Failure
So much has changed, and yet the damage continues to compound, from the destruction of our military and international reputation to the devastation the war wrought on our economy.
Alyssa Silva: For My Brother
One September afternoon, I was receiving an albuterol treatment to keep my lungs expanded and free from infection. Suddenly, there was a knock at our door: It was a police officer to tell my mom Adam had been hit by a truck while riding his bike.
Dark Rye: The Unseen Bean: Roasting Coffee in the Dark
When you lose the use of one sense, the others become heightened. That's certainly true for Gerry Leary of Boulder, Colorado. Leary has been blind since birth, yet he operates a successful coffee roasting business and a café near Boulder's main pedestrian mall, Pearl Street.
Mark Starr: Rio Grande del Norte: A Gift for the Veterans and Military Families of New Mexico
This is a big win for the people of New Mexico and our nation. And it isn't the only win this week for Veterans.
David Petersen: Feral Kat Krazies Eat Audubon Star Reporter Ted Williams
Mr. Williams, quite recently, wrote a short piece for the Orlando Sentinel detailing the horrific annual slaughter of songbirds in North America by cats, both well-fed and alley variety.
David Petersen: The North American Model for Wildlife Conservation Is an Endangered Species in Colorado
While we need to honor and reward landowners for hosting wildlife, we don't need to gratuitously enrich them at public expense.
Dr. Jim Taylor: What Is Technology Doing to Your Children's Friendships?
With social media, the goal is to accumulate as many so-called friends as possible. The message that children who spend a great deal of time in these forms of social media is that quantity trumps quality. So children may come to value friendships in terms of numbers rather than depth.
Courtney Baxter: Queer in Public
For some, the threat of violence is too real, and the simple act of holding hands or kissing on a street corner would be unwise and unsafe. But for the rest of us, we have the capability to shift the tides by making ourselves visibl...
Gil Asakawa: Naomi Hirahara, Author of Mas Arai Mystery Novels, Comes to Denver for a Reading
Arai is a little like Miss Marple -- an unlikely crime-solver in the guise of a senior citizen. But he's unlike everyone else I've read, because he's a 70-something Nisei, or second generation Japanese American who was born in California but spent his childhood in Japan.
Jason Salzman: Does GOP Gun Nuttiness in Colorado Portend the Upcoming Gun 'Debate' in Congress?
Lawmakers are in the home stretch of passing a set of gun safety bills. This new legislation wouldn't take a single gun away from a real-life, law-abiding person. Yet, by the reaction of some, you'd think the government was on the verge of confiscating every firearm in Colorado.
The Denver Diatribe: Local Author Dan Baum Deconstructs America's Gun Guys
Building on our recent discussion of the new gun bills moving through the Colorado legislature, we sit down with celebrated author Dan Baum to discuss his provocative new book, Gun Guys.
The Denver Diatribe: Mark DeNittis of Cook Street Culinary School on Horse Meat, Bacon, and GMOs
Is horse bacon the next big trend in Denver cuisine? We talk with Mark DeNittis from Cook Street School of Culinary Art about GMO labels, Denver Restaurant Week, horse meat, and the rebirth of the butcher in Denver's food scene.
Wade Norris: Governor Hickenlooper Chooses Oil and Gas Industry Over Colorado, Will Be Primaried
If you were to Google the name of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper as recently as a couple of months ago, you'd see articles such as...
Kathleen Hallgren: When Colorado's Working Families Are Self-sufficient, Our State Is Stronger
It's been said that the best anti-poverty measure is a job. But for more than a quarter of Colorado's workforce, working hard isn't enough to make ends meet.
Cody Gossett: The Great American Gap Year
Almost every person we've spoken to about our travels has told us that they're envious and want to do the same thing -- to that I always say, "You can. Just put a date on your calendar and give your jobs six weeks notice before you leave."
Gary Hart: Orthodoxy and Change
Underlying all the media focus on the cardinals' selection of a new pope, and the predictable focus on personality over meaning, was a much greater struggle between tradition and reform, conservatism and progress. That struggle mirrors politics in America and most western democracies.
Greg Tobin: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth about St. Patrick
St. Patrick is not the benign figure wearing a green bishop's miter holding a shamrock and casting the snakes from the shores of his homeland,
Ann Brenoff: What Do You Actually Do When You Retire?
I can honestly say I have never given two consecutive minutes of thought to what my retired life will look like -- largely because I'm convinced I can't afford to have one.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Don't Have Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda in Your Sport
You get one shot in a competition, so you might as well take it, otherwise there will be a whole lot of "woulda, coulda, shoulda" when you look in the rearview mirror of your day on the field, course, court, hill, or what-have-you.
