I love when I get to tell my friends and family about great deals.  I am delighted when someone tells me that I “always know about great deals.”  But in a recently conversation, I could not really define the difference between being “cheap” and being “frugal.”  Maybe you can help. Make Cheap Chic or Frugal Fun….share the same [...]

Another day, another snow storm. Here are 50 ways to spend a snow day:
Make an abominable snowman. It’s like a regular snowman, but less friendly to passers-by.
Practice multiplication and script with your kids. That’ll put them in a REALLY good mood. For older kids, break out the practice tests.
Delete all of the expletive-laden “music” from [...]

I was taken aback when I read that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure was canceling their three-day walk for breast cancer in Colorado because, according to their PR agency, “it just didn’t meet financial goals.”
Nevermind the thousands of dollars Denverites have raised in what has became one of our city’s most highly-attended [...]

Send us your camp listings
It might be winter, but it’s time to start thinking about summer camps. The March 15 Denver Post LifeStyle section will include listings of hundreds of camps in Colorado and elsewhere.
The submission deadline for new camps is Feb. 18. Camps that were in last year’s list will be contacted to update [...]

No smart-phone application — at least not yet — can accelerate heart rates, inflate muscles or trim waistlines.
To accomplish that, bodies must be moved, not just thumbs, and calories watched.
While apps alone can’t transform a beer gut, they at least offer quite a bit of guidance, and they are legion, offering everything from daily yoga [...]

Honestly, I didn’t know there was any skiing in Glenwood Springs until last summer when we went to explore. Up top, at the Glenwood Caverns, our guide told us about how the town was a great place for families—with year-round activities—and how his own kids had learned to ski “up at Sunlight.” Our eyes followed [...]

At least twice a week, James Austin visits the Denver Public Library’s main downtown branch to check out a book, peruse the stacks, browse in the map room — he’s avid about cartography — and in general find some peace and quiet.
So when the library closes Thursday for a week-long, system-wide computer upgrade, the retiree [...]

Through Sunday. It’s the last weekend to catch Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria” before it swoops out of Colorado. The show uses acrobatic feats, crazy contortions and colorful characters to tell its story, a meditation on the passage of time. Playing in Loveland through Sunday, the fanciful show features music from all over the globe, from [...]

Many of us were moved by our recent guest blogger Casey’s story about depression and overdose while pregnant. She was so brave to share her story with the world so that could help others.
I co-own a company that does health education research (and multimedia development around the research – that’s where I come in) and [...]

Wow!  January is almost over already!  I think I’m doing well with my New Year’s Resolutions – one of which was to maintain my budget but still try to do a bunch of great stuff!  I love to find great deals and share them with you.  The kids and I have a “full dance card” this weekend all with items that were a [...]