Fall is in the air and next week, we will be including a round-up of the best places to shop for Halloween costumes. Please email us if you have any favorites including new costumes, swaps and used.
Smithsonian Museum Day
In Colorado we don’t live near a Smithsonian Museum (that offer free daily admission) so Smithsonian brings us [...]

It seems like for the past few months, I’ve been asking myself over and over, “Were certain things in life always this aggravating? Are people getting more exasperating or am I just getting older and more crotchety?” And, lately, I’m usually asking myself that question while I’m at the grocery store.

There was a brief moment when I thought my tombstone would read Devoured By a T-Rex. News accounts would include an interview with the massive Cretaceous carnivore, who would quip, “She tasted like a gamey triceratops. I only had enough ranch dressing for her nose.”
Our family came face-to-face with the ferocious fangs of RoboSUE at [...]

The big guy on the bike held up his arm: a long swath of scabs; skin turned to hamburger. Still, he was smiling. “He convinced me to go off the bigger jump,” said Mike Davis, 37, gesturing toward his 5-year-old son, Braedyn. “And here’s the result.”
Davis’ meeting of flesh and dirt doesn’t make him so [...]

New proposed school lunch standards have some members of the Colorado congressional delegation wrangling.
Over potatoes.
Both small and large, purple and brown and gray — but not sweet ones, it turns out.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suggested changing the rules on what can be served to more than 31 million kids — 394,683 in Colorado [...]

Life isn’t easy as a single dad, much less with a 10-year-old child who has special challenges.
But when Talon Windwalker was a young adult he had a dream of raising his children abroad so they could experience this “amazing, large world.” He has done everything from worked as a hospice chaplain to a Zen monk [...]

ABC’s of-the-moment comedy “Modern Family” was named best comedy series and swept four other Emmy categories — best supporting actor nods for the Dunphy family heads, Julie Bowen​ and Ty Burrell​, along with directing and writing wins — at the 63rd annual Emmy Awards telecast Sunday.
AMC’s little but mighty 1960s retro commentary “Mad Men​” was [...]

One of those who slithered her way through the multihued plastic tubes of a fast-food restaurant playground here one recent morning was not enjoying herself in the least.
“It’s bad,” Erin M. Carr-Jordan said, swab in hand, as she collected samples from a surface that she would later deliver to a lab for microbial testing.
Carr-Jordan, a [...]

**CONTEST CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER CHERYL PHILLIPS!**
This is the time of year I start getting antsy at the grocery store. My beloved mangoes, peaches, strawberries et al. will soon be going out of season, leaving me with slim pickings.
Sorry, apples and oranges. It’s nothing personal.
That’s why Door-to-Door Organics produce is such a great choice. This [...]

Many retailers and schools are advocating waste-free options for back-to-school shoppers this year, especially when it comes to lunch. School lists call for Tupperware instead of Ziplocs, neoprene lunch bags instead of brown paper ones, and aluminum water bottles, not the throwaway plastic versions.
Sales of environmentally friendly back-to-school products are up just about everywhere. At [...]