‘Mom taught me confidence,’ and the skills translate to life

My mom tried to teach me many things when I was young – how to sew, how to garden, how to speak Spanish – but the one thing she didn’t try to teach is the one that really stuck: how to navigate the...

DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

DAR asks for help in placing vets’ flags

For the past seven years, the members of the Sleeping Ute Mountain Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution have marked the graves of veterans in the rural cemeteries in Montezuma County before...

DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Mesa Verde artist launches season with quilt presentation

Quilt artist Susan Madden, who will serve as Mesa Verde National Park’s artist in residence May 2-15, presents an interactive program for visitors at Mesa Verde on Friday, May 13, at 7 p.m. in the...

DATE: April 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Mercy offers free class on square-foot gardening

For The Journal Mercy Nutrition Therapy and The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado invite the public to attend “Square Foot Gardening,” a free educational workshop, on Wednesday, May 11, at 5:30...

DATE: April 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Southwest Singers spotlight songs of love and spring

The Southwest Singers will present their spring concert on May 6 and 7 at the First Methodist Church. The choir has been practicing since January on a selection of songs including “Love is a Many...

DATE: April 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Gail’s Garden When’s spring coming? Watch for lilacs

Stories come from settler’s diaries of taking cuttings of lilacs, transporting them across the rough, unsettled country and then planting them at the door of their newly established homesteads in...

DATE: April 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Community Calendar

Email announcements to [email protected] and include “Community Calendar” in the subject field. Items submitted less than two weeks in advance will be less likely to be published. Entries and...

DATE: April 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Colorado governor holds up ‘creative spirit’ of Prince

DENVER – Gov. John Hickenlooper remembered influential musician Prince as a “quintessentially unique creative spirit.” Prince was found dead at his home Thursday in suburban Minneapolis. He was 57....

DATE: April 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Cortez native walks 12,000 miles for charity

E.J. Verdahl has walked more than 12,000 miles in the past five years. The 70-year-old Cortez native walks six to eight miles per day to raise money for the Samaritan’s Purse Shoebox Ministries...

DATE: April 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

A Sephardic seder

You do not have to be Jewish to know the story of Passover, the holiest holiday commemorating the exodus of the Jews from enslavement in Egypt. Let me take you back to your days in Sunday school...

DATE: April 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

Matzo lasagna for Passover

Let’s say that most of the folks coming to your place for the Passover feast are vegetarians. And let’s say that you want to cater to them without breaking the hearts of the die-hard carnivores...

DATE: April 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Living

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