Several of my friends and even my family think social networking is a waste of time. They won’t Facebook, Twitter or read blogs and can’t really understand what I get from it. I’ve found the most vehement opposition from my tango dancing mother and my friends who are cyclists. These are not ladies who exercise casually, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colorado’
Blair and the Balloon Boy
Posted: October 22, 2009 in Children, Colorado, Crime, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Parenting, Random Thoughts, Technology, Television, Weather, WomenTags: Balloon Boy, Blair Ewalt, brazil, Cirque du Soleil, CNN, Colorado, David Lane, Entertainment Tonight, Falcon Heene, Fort Collins, Fox News, Japan, John Mark Carr, Jonbenet Ramsey, Larimer County Sheriff, Larry King Live, London, Mayumi Heene, NBC, NBC News, Richard Heene, Sheriff Jim Alderden, Take Your Kid to Work Day, Today Show
My 11 year old son, Blair, wanted to go to Cirque du Soleil this year, but because our schedules were so busy, we missed it. Instead he went to the Balloon Boy media circus. Because my husband was traveling and I was a single mom over the weekend I didn’t want to leave him at [...]
Youth Sports: Enough Already
Posted: October 19, 2009 in Children, Colorado, Education, Media, News, News and Views, Parenting, Random Thoughts, SportsTags: Cherry Creek High School, Colorado, Denver Post, Englewood, Scott Martin, Sports, Youth Sports
This very well written article is by a senior named Scott Martin at Cherry Creek High School in Englewood, Colorado. In his guest commentary for the Denver Post he sums up the intense competition and pressures of youth sports and all the things adults do to take the fun out of it. As the mother [...]
Andrea Jaeger’s Silver Lining
Posted: August 18, 2009 in Children, Colorado, Community Service, Health Care, Inspiration, Judaism, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Religion, Sports, Travel, WomenTags: Andrea Jaeger, Aspen, cancer, Colorado, Lee Cowan, NBC, NBC Nightly News, Silver Lining Foundation, Silver Lining Ranch, tennis
Andrea Jaeger is a former tennis great turned nun who heard a higher calling. She now runs the Silver Lining Foundation which helps terminally ill children. One of the highlights of the experience has been camp for kids battling cancer which has been held during summer and winter months in Aspen, Colorado. She is now [...]
A Denver Death Examined
Posted: July 26, 2009 in Aging, Colorado, Community Service, Economy, Health Care, Homelessness, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Photography, Poverty, Random ThoughtsTags: 16th Street Mall, Colorado, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Denver, Denver Post, Homeless, Karen Auge, Richard Allen Johnson, Rick Johnson
I was particularly moved by Denver Post reporter Karen Auge’s story about the death of one homeless man and the efforts to uncover his backstory. What probably made people notice this death is the photo of a trio of maintenence workers on the 16th Street Mall who were trying to revive him. To the Colorado Coalition for [...]
