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Have I ever mentioned that I am perhaps a bit stubborn and a bit slow to change directions? There’s an axiom from the world of commodities and stocks: Your first loss is your best loss. Which is another way of saying “don’t throw good money after bad.” That came up while hiking in the rain […]
What is it? The hiking trails at Arapaho Bend rate as “pretty amazing, considering where they’re located,” to me. Arapaho Bend is one of Fort Collins many Natural Areas. The trail loop network runs a total distance of 4 miles. These trails loop around ponds created from abandoned gravel pits. Hikers, boaters, horsemen and runners
Can you treat depression with yoga classes? The research says it works. I went and tried 4 days a week of yoga and felt … so much better. Last week I announced that instead of going to counseling I was going to go to yoga to try to treat depression. I came to this
I have decided to return to yoga with a renewed commitment. And the reason I have returned is because I have been too … well subject to too much depression. I tried to address it by going back on Buproprion, an anti-depressant prescribed me 18 months ago and which I stopped taking a few months
Now it is Friday and the meetup hiking cabin trip is in the past. The wooden cabin covered with snow, the kitchen with pans and gadgets and dull knives and a big table in the middle with benches like in a lumber camp that sits eight, it’s history. How did it go, my friends asked
I’ve got fear of being alone. But it’s not like the fear of being alone I had when I was a young woman, when I worried someone was going to break into the house and kill me. It’s more like a social fear. This is what I mean. I don’t like seeing myself as a
First of all some brief details on traveling Trail Ridge Road: What: A 48-mile long route along the tops of the Rocky Mountains, crossing the Continental Divide, and allowing serene and amazing views of the tundra ecosystem, the mountain sky, and snowy cirques. (Cirques are those bowls near the mountain peaks that catch snow and
Trail Ridge Road? No no no no. They have told me it’s scary. There are cliffs. Apparently pretty dramatic ones. My mother, who is afraid of heights, went up there once and now she’s afraid to drive on any part of the Rockies. Even people generally considered “normal” and not paranoid or unstable say Trail
Visiting an Iconic Tea Factory, Connecting with Childhood The magical Celestial Seasonings Tour in Boulder, Colorado is at the corner of Zinger and Sleepytime Drive, behind a small prairie dog village. As you drive up, the dogs stare out at you flipping their tiny tails back and forth, and you wonder: is this it? Then
To say I was a little bit apprehensive might be an understatement. The source of my fear wasn’t simply all that water, but something else.
