Courtney Chandler—a dog trainer and behavioral science nerd—shares the secret to how she and her husband hacked their relationship and found harmony while adjusting to being together 24-7. Courtney Chandler With Colorado under stay-at-home orders, we’re discovering that quarantines make folks irritable with the people around them. While understandable, if left unchecked, … [Read more...] about Irritable with Your Quarantine Companions? It’s Time to Think like a Dog Trainer
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Your Wellness Secret Weapon
"Take a deep breath.” It’s great advice. Breathing is the most fundamental function of human life. We can exist for days without food and water, but oxygen? Just minutes. The average person takes 16 breaths per minute. At 80 you’ll have breathed around 672,768,000 times. So it’s weird that we are so very unskilled at it! Life can make us feel like we are … [Read more...] about Your Wellness Secret Weapon
Find Your Way as a Family Historian
My phone buzzed with a barrage of texts from a distant cousin. I scrolled through vignettes and photos connected to my birth family. Referring to a great great grandmother I never knew, this cousin’s 75-year-old sister wrote, “Katie…was creaky and croaky. Smoked like a fiend, had long fingernails and raised Merlin while Grover lived in the woods.” I thought to myself, “Wow, … [Read more...] about Find Your Way as a Family Historian
Tips on Preventing Personal Property Theft
Greetings to all the residents and businesses in Northwest Denver from Denver Police District #1. Officer Bob Anderson What a month it has been. I sincerely hope that everyone is doing the best that they can with all of the challenges and changes in our community. DPD District #1 is committed to this community and keeping all of the residents and businesses safe. We are … [Read more...] about Tips on Preventing Personal Property Theft
Relating to the Stranger in the Pandemic: A Family History
For many years after my mother's family migrated north from their home downtown on the old Auraria campus, the Flahertys rented a small worker's cottage in North Denver at 2528 Hooker Street. It was just south of an unpaved city alley so the family got used to lots of local foot traffic. As the robin flies, that was a direct line from old St Dominic's church on West 25th … [Read more...] about Relating to the Stranger in the Pandemic: A Family History