Extra Time: Tour de Compassion-prelims (Chronicling an American Journey)
He’s not the first to do it; he won’t be the last. But there is something enlightening about the way he accomplished it. Forrest Gump did it on his feet; Matt Dulin did it on a bike. The urge to get up and move can be consuming, can make you restless– will finally make you...
50 Shades of Green: Green Eaters’ Mantra
In a time before there were designer farmer markets and natural/organic sections (Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Sprouts, etc…) food was organic, it wasn’t gown in waste sludge with pesticides and genetically modified. Food wasn’t colored, dyed, filled with additives and preservatives, scented, irradiated, packaged and then labeled as a food like substance. Food used to...
What’s Fresh: Dressed Up Wins Big
Recently I got to talk to Aryn Schlichting, co-founder of Dressed Up Salad Dressing, an all-natural line of salad dressings made from vegetables, fruit and flax to add nutritional value to your salad. After all, why fill a bowl with healthy fruits and vegetables and then cover it in unhealthy dressing? Well apparently the judges...
Take it Outside: Cappucino and Ciclisimo
Cycling is hard; the faint of heart beware. Certainly I have belabored this point in my previous articles on the matter – detailing Kennedy Donnelly’s triumphant, but trying ride across America. Or, perhaps you read the narrative on sisterhood in Colorado, describing a challenging, yet charitable effort to support under-resourced students through the Venus de...
Green Scene: Green Gowns for Eco-Friendly Brides
It’s wedding season and eco-chic is on the rise. More and more brides are wearing white while going green. According to studies done through The Green Bride, an eco-friendly bridal salon in Littleton, the average dress uses 7 to 10 tons of carbon, which equals 1.8 acres of pine forest. There’s a way to get...
The Roots of Happiness: Root Down Brings it Back to Basics
We are all culprits of it. We have all eaten at those greasy chain food restaurants that serve paper wrapped and chemically enhanced food with a sugar-filled drink on the side. Whether you are one of the people who can openly admit to eating it through the week, someone who cunningly scarfs it down in...




























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