Meet Oliver Hart aka Olive! Olive is a boxer who loves everything about Boulder except for the raccoons. She likes to hang out with fun, exciting people and her favorite album is The Many faces of Oliver Heart by Eyedea/Oliver Heart, whom she is named after.

Addiction is a bitch. There’s a number of reasons why, genetic, emotional, psychological, the list goes on. For me, one of the cruelest aspects of addiction is the removal of potential. When we’re born, we’re blank slates. The possibility exists that we can go anywhere, do anything. But some of us have a self-destructive streak, […]

It is summer in Colorado, this means hiking 14ers, trail running in the Front Range, and swimming in cold mountain lakes. Unfortunately, it also means afternoon storms capable of moving quickly and producing hail, lightning, and rain. About two weeks ago, 15 people were injured by a lightning strike while hiking on Mount Bierstadt. Hikers […]

  Meet Dom! Dom is a wake-boarder and spends just about every nice on the water. Dom competes and even has several sponsorships for boarding. When he isn’t on the water he is exploring Colorado from horseback. Dom also spends a lot of time up in Montana exploring the country side and playing on the […]

  Meet Alex! She is a sophomore at CU Boulder and spent the day tubing down the creek! After all the heavy rain in the early summer, the water has finally slowed down enough to float down! Although Alex says the water is still very, very cold. Even though it was a sunny day, she […]

Meet Sean! Sean was working for the City of Boulder today by installing unique designs on a few bridges by Boulder Creek.  These interesting piano themed “bridge art” designs serve as a public service announcement about the dangers of flooding in the Boulder area.  In wake of recent flood catastrophes, any means of spreading information […]

A look through my iPhone photos from my recent visit to Istanbul provides a narrow glimpse into my trip. A few touristy snapshots of ancient monuments and various places of worship reveal the city’s historical and geographical peculiarities—as the gateway between Europe and the Middle East—but say little about my personal time spent there. On […]

Meet Livie!  Livie just graduated from the University of Colorado with a Psychology degree! She currently works as a hostess at the Egg and I and also at a research lab on campus that looks at different things that contribute to psychosis.  The lab focuses on studying youth at risk for developing psychosis (i.e. schizophrenia and […]

Just the other day I overheard an older gentleman talking about somebody he knew who had an impressive college degree from a very prestigious institution who was apparently, “taking the easy way out”. The young man that he spoke of was working a dead-end night job somewhere for very little pay. The job was barely […]

There’s one thing they never tell you about becoming an adult. Making friends is hard. When you become a parent? Making friends is really hard. Here’s an example. I work from home, so it falls upon me to handle school pickup for my kid. I’m one of the lone fathers to collect my kid at the end […]