Foothills Focus

Oddly enough, I’m finding myself in the exact same place I was in March of 2021 regarding a topic for this column. So, with a bit of a cheat, I’m copying the intro from that column and let’s see what random thoughts follow. It will be a surprise for all of us. Isn’t...

Here I sit, my deadline looming, with not a thing say. I ask my office mate for a topic to write about. She and I start to spitball about this time of year. Dark, miserable, gloomy, boring… not great starting points for an article! In fact, as I’m writing this, it is...

Are you up for a challenge? Nothing too challenging of course, just something fun and right in your own backyard! How many foothills parks and trails have you hiked or biked since you’ve lived in the mountains outside of Denver? What if this year, 2023, you could make...

Chronologically, I am 61 years of age. In my head, however, I’m still convinced I’m in my 40s. Early 40s. Like 40. Or rather, I was, right up until the day about a month ago when I looked down and wondered who swapped out my legs for these old-lady chicken legs I was...

I remember the three months between my mom’s cancer diagnosis and her death as a blur of events. My brothers and I all recall things differently, and in a different order. We were truly drinking from a firehose as we learned about cancer, glioblastoma, short- and...

How important is it to you to support your community? And what does that even look like? Three years ago I wrote a variation of this article, and it’s no surprise that it’s still relevant. It seems like it was a lifetime ago considering everything that we’ve endured...

I used to be a wreck about naming livestock and pets that came to live at the farm. Especially the newborn alpacas. If we didn’t have a name in the first 20 minutes, then I became an idiot about it. The idea of an unnamed animal was just unacceptable. Ridiculous,...

My marriage ended in a tidal wave of unbearable sadness. There. I said it. As a child of divorce, I was determined to never get divorced. It was a promise I made to myself and to my spouse when we were married. ’Til death do us part. As newlyweds, we talked about how...

Funpa 2004 Moving forward is a theme, not only in my life, but a theme throughout American history. And as I am living through this chapter of American history, my hope is that we can all move forward. When I look at people, I imagine that each person is a walking...

It’s such a cliche, but raising a kid really does go by so quickly. When you bring your newborn bundle home, those days are so very long that it is impossible to believe people when they tell you not to blink. But, it’s true, you shouldn’t blink. Somehow I find myself...

Being a Colorado native, you don’t know how lucky you are ’til you leave the state. You only know what you know. I knew the summers were great, the sun would shine most days of the year and the mountains were there to the west like a firm backrest. As a kid in...

“It’s turning out there’s actually a science to happiness and it’s been studied and quantified for decades.”You know how the universe has a way of putting things and ideas and people in your path to shine a light on an area you might want to put some awareness on?...