Foothills Focus

Wild turkey in full flirt. We live on S Turkey Creek Road so, as you can imagine, there might be a wild turkey or two roaming around. Ok, maybe 50 at last count. And while they are rumored to be among the smartest of birds, the fact that they show up the most around...

I discovered yoga when I was in college. My roommate was a hippie chick from Santa Barbara and she dragged me to a yoga class one day. I knew immediately that I loved the vibe. At that point in my life, I was not craving physical exercise in the way that I do now. And...

Everywhere I turn, reflection is in front of me—from Instagram and Facebook posts, and opening holiday cards with growing and changing families to the business planning for 2025 based on what happened in 2024. There’s a year full of milestones that remind me of how...

There’s a new addition here at the farm. We had started thinking about adding a livestock guardian male puppy in May when we almost lost Moses to a health episode. Moses is a 13 1⁄2-year-old Anatolian Shepherd, and if it was his time to go, we didn’t want to stress...

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands—one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.  —Audrey Hepburn One of my earliest memories is going to Dick Lamm’s campaign office to volunteer with my mom in 1975. I loved being in the...

“Life’s about changing, nothing ever stays the same... ” Patty Loveless sang it so sweetly in 1993, and I remember my mother and I sharing a glance when it played on the radio. She had moved to Texas, of all places, to live with her husband, and the song was such a...

Living up here for over 33 years and having livestock for the last 21 years, we’re no strangers to fire danger and the potential for evacuation. We’ve been on pre-evacuation status many times, but never felt the potential danger close enough to evacuate the alpacas...

This article has been brewing inside of me for quite some time now. As a certified Facebook scroller, I am a devotee of our community pages. There are pretty much the same few posts mixed up and reposted day after day. There’s the “shoutout about a local business”...

Nesting: 22 years ago I was building a nest—not sure exactly what I was preparing for, yet instinctively there was a desire to get ready. An urge to tidy up, a place for everything and everything in its place. Reflecting, it would have been beneficial to read a couple...

Yesterday I unpacked my last box in my new home. I hope when you read that sentence, you hear the trumpets’ fanfare. Because I sure do! I know I mentioned in my last article that I was pretty clueless about what moving entails. I frequently witness my clients going...

It’s still a surprise that it’s 2024, that it’s April, that my youngest is graduating in May, and I’ll turn 50 in July. That COVID began four years ago (that will always be a significant marker of time) and that we will be facing an election of T and B yet again in...

I first wrote about this topic in March of 2021, but it’s just so appropriate right this minute that I felt the need to share it again with some updates. You know how the universe has a way of putting things and ideas and people in your path to shine a light on an...