It’s often our first word. We learn how to use it often and with abandon.
We wish our toddlers and preschoolers wouldn’t say it.
We hope our teenagers do.
We grow up and forget how to use it.
We think saying it makes us weak.
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We somehow correlate it with disappointment.
We don’t want to be impolite.
We [...]

The other day I was at the gym using a machine next to a 30-something guy. While I was actually lifting I noticed he wasn’t doing anything. Instead I watched his head move back and forth, his eyes chasing after every 20-something’s butt that walked by.
Gross.

Walking together for stronger, healthier babies
March for Babies is the nation’s oldest and biggest event for mom/baby health. It’s also the largest annual March of Dimes fundraiser. Money raised funds a range of March of Dimes programs that work to improve the health of moms and babies. Thousands of Coloradans get involved in the event [...]

Every month, Mile High Mamas features a Q & A from The Children’s Hospital on a different health topic. This month’s topic is all about how to sooth your child’s springtime allergies.

About 53 percent of the students in Denver Public Schools attend a school other than the one assigned to them, up from 34 percent in 2004. Families are exercising their school-choice options more so than in surrounding districts, where numbers are on the rise nonetheless.
In DPS, choices are plentiful, but district officials say more families [...]

Annie Freedom, left, owner of the Samadhi Center for Yoga, makes a namaste salutation after giving her two-minute pitch for her business. Meg Connell, center, and Antoinette A’Lire also pitched their company plans. Make Mine a Million $ Business — a national initiative to help small female-owned businesses grow — held a one-day event Monday.

LOS ANGELES—Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out.

Most recently, moviegoers complained about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney’s 3-D flick “Mars Needs Moms.”

TUCSON, Ariz.—Authorities in southern Arizona say a boy and a girl were seriously injured after strong wind lifted the children’s bounce house they were in and deposited it on a road.

The 2011 HGTV Green Home, valued at $700,000, is located east of Stapleton’s Central Park West neighborhood.
“Green” living is more than lowering energy bills, conserving water and shopping with reusable bags.

Julissa Valdivia, 9, and Karen Vazquez, 16, share a smile at the weekly informal art-club meeting at Joshua Station, a homeless shelter.