I’ve always been a big fan of Target so when a Super Target was built 2 minutes from our house, my husband braced himself for the repercussions.
My bank account will confirm there were many.
But my Target spending is being put to good use. The corporation donates five percent of its income (that’s more than [...]

For a kid who gets decent grades and is headed to college next year, my 17-year-old son can be a knucklehead about breakfast. If something isn’t at his fingertips as he stumbles out the door on his way to early-morning football practice, he’ll go without.
And it shows, not only on the field, but in the [...]

According to the state of Colorado, 121,000 people possess valid medical marijuana licenses and Colorado has more than 750 dispensaries. Like it or not, we are on the front lines of the medical marijuana industry with a potential ballot issue on legalization a year from now.
What numbers like that, children are bound [...]

So how did all of this start?
Back in late October/early November 2009, Z was attending a three-day-a-week, half-day preschool, partly because I thought he needed more interaction with other kids but mostly because I really needed a break during the week. I had been a SAHM for over a year with a difficult baby (S) [...]

Saturday. Fall is in the air and there’s no better way to kick it off than by checking out Jared’s 6th Annual Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off and Festival on Saturday. Last year, thousands of people attended this event that featured 1,500+ pound pumpkins measuring more than 14 feet in circumference. In addition to the weigh-off, there [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]