“My son is still single, so …” Shinji Asano, 83, of Fujiidera, Japan, sincerely listens to such remarks from visitors who want to marry or are concerned about their children’s…
A: I am sorry. This doesn’t look good. And no, he’s not laid up in a body cast from skimboarding gone awry – he’s purposely distancing himself from you. He…
Maude Tarr demonstrates her skills as a “champion bronco buster” at the September 1919 Durango fair.Courtesy of Animas Museum/No.98-17-010 75 years ago: “Joe Piccoli, Trimble Springs resort and night club…
When I emerged from the kitchen, my husband had commandeered a near clean sweep of our new guest room, except for the bits of scissored paper scraps that had dropped…
The former are often protagonists in literature and muses in pop music’s soulful ballads. The latter are known to be annoyingly earnest at best and desperately forlorn at worst. We’re…
That bit of validation comes courtesy of Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff, researchers at the University of New South Wales and Miami University, respectively. For their latest study, published in…
Typical first-date jitters. Except the date’s platonic. Perhaps you’re just in the market for some new friends. Maybe some have moved out of state or had children or vanished after…
Building a well-rounded registry can be difficult. How many place settings is too many? Is the range of price points wide enough? Do you really need that mini-doughnut maker? Sarah…
Amy Shives, of Spokane, Wash., was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. New research released Tuesday suggests that women may be harder-hit by Alzheimer’s disease than men.Young Kwak/Associated Press Nearly…
Koreans have been making the bubbly rice wine called makgeolli for centuries.Matthew Mead/Associated Press That might have something to do with most people not knowing how to pronounce it, or…
A great after-school snack, this DIY granola can be easily customized with your favorite ingredients.Matthew Mead/Associated Press The best part of homemade granola is that you can customize it to…
The artificial sweetener in Diet Pepsi is about to change from aspartame to sucralose, but fans of the old formula may still be able to get it.Matt Rourke/Associated Press file…
75 years ago: “Mesa Verde and all other national parks are threatened with what practically amounts to a shutdown. The U.S. Bureau of the Budget has recommended drastic reduction in…
Adult Day Care at “Our Place” an outreach of The First United Methodist Church is seeking loving, caring, compassionate, dependable volunteers. People who are at least 18 years of age,…
75 years ago: “W.A. Nash, who has a lease on the Gold King gold mining properties in the La Plata Mountains, has had a group of interested mining men viewing…
My father, a native Vermonter who passed away two years ago, had a lifelong love of exploring the Green Mountain state’s back roads. Bud Petty would be driving his pickup…
President Barack Obama, second from left, accompanied by his daughters Sasha and Malia, and their friends, walk through Central Park in New York on Saturday. Obama is spending a mainly…
75 years ago: “Elwood Nixon, a member of the Durango contingent employed at Mesa Verde this summer, was in Durango enjoying his one day per week vacation. Elwood says that…
I was hoping that my son’s postal habits would tend more toward my brother’s side of the spectrum – I wanted to know that he was fine, but mostly too…
scholars say archaeological evidence does not support decision
Monks from the Gaden Shartse Phukhang Monastery in southern India will visit Durango as part of the Sacred Arts of Tibet Tour, a cultural exchange and fundraising event. “Peaceful Heart…
75 years ago: “The city’s street maintenance crew has been busy this week grading the streets and avenues in east Durango. After watching the work, one is mystified to account…
President Barack Obama, left, walks with his daughter Sasha, second from left, and two of her friends to Marine One upon arriving at JFK International Airport, Friday in New York.Frank…
He has been potty trained for a year now and will tell you that he must poop in the toilet, but five minutes later, he goes in his pants. He,…
Q: We are about to go on a tent-camping trip with our 13-month-old. She isn’t walking on her own yet. We are planning on being gone just one to two…
As you can see, the risk of divorce declines steadily from your teens into your late 20s, but somewhere in the early 30s it starts to creep back up again.…
Nope, says a massive new study analyzing the traits of 377,000 high school students. At least, the study says, not enough to make any practical difference. In the end, researchers…
When my oldest child was 4, she asked me this question while we were watching my wife leave for work. My daughter had obviously processed that her mother was both…
