So here it is, Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, and once again, the only thing your daughter wants for Christmas is a pony. And so, for the umpteenth time, you are going to disappoint her when you give her something less expensive, like a diamond bracelet or a new car.
Or are you?
Make this the Christmas you finally buy your little girl that horse she’s always dreamed of — at a price that’s practically giving it away — Read More
There was an interesting little tidbit of information out of Aspen last week, with the Aspen Daily News reporting Wednesday on the opening of a fourth medical marijuana dispensary in the tony ski town known for its laissez-faire attitude toward drugs. The very next day the same newspaper ran a story detailing Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ concerns about the proliferation of such dispensaries around the state.
Suthers is right to be concerned. The opening of Alternative Medical Solutions in an office building in downtown Aspen added to what is now an estimated 100 or so dispensaries throughout Colorado, Read More
A few years ago, if you had mentioned a pet psychic or animal communicator, as they are sometimes called, mine would have been among the loudest voices calling you a gullible fool. These people, who claim they can use their minds to sense what pets are feeling, are quite obviously charlatans, I would have said. Psychics, in my cynical view, are nothing but con artists, pet psychics even more so.
But then something happened that made me rethink my position. Read More
This week, for the second time in less than a month, I’d like to break from my normal routine to focus on an issue of concern to we folks here in the Roaring Fork Valley, particularly the good people of Aspen. My apologies to those readers who will find this column even more uninteresting than my usual drivel, but I feel like something has to be said.
It seems as if people have a lot of misconceptions about the movie “Cougar Hunting,” which is currently being filmed at various locations around town. Read More
Out of deference to my international readership (one guy working with a medevac unit in Kabul), I generally try to avoid writing about Aspen-centric topics, preferring instead to focus on national and global subjects. This week, however, a couple of articles in the local papers and a visit to a park in town got me riled up enough that I’ve decided to tackle two issues of concern to residents of the Roaring Fork Valley.
The first article was one that seems to appear in some form or other nearly every day this time of year. It concerned the proliferation of dog waste on Smuggler Mountain Road, a popular hiking route in Aspen. Read More
Those lucky few who are intimate with my buffed physique may find it hard to believe that I have no idea how to “work out” at the gym that I joined three weeks ago and never go to.
Oh, I went to the weight room a couple of times in college, but there was something about pumping iron while some other guy spots you and yells things that you’d normally say in bed to encourage you that I always found kind of creepy. Read More