Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 4/6/08
A friend recently reminded me of the time my four-year-old son decided to change his name to “Rockstar”.
His reasoning was quite simple: A Rockstar has a guitar, gets to sing heavy metal songs and, “can say bad words because they’re grown-ups”.
Makes sense.
He’s almost six now, and, although his desire […]

 Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 3/30/08
I stretched on my mat, ready to downward dog and crescent moon my way to well-being, listening to the background chatter about various pills, elixirs and patches used to “even me out”, “give me some balance”, “make me normal again”.
It wasn’t a therapeutic yoga class, taken to repair bodies that […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 3/23/08
Like many busy-with-sports-and-activities-during-the-week families, ours has instituted the regularly scheduled and mandatory Sunday Night Dinner. For us, it’s a time to gather at the dining room table with real silverware at our elbows and glasses that don’t need anything twisted off their tops.

Happiest Nation in the World, Eh?
The above article, “A Little Refined Dinner Conversation” by Wendy Brache, cites Denmark as the happiest nation in the world.
While statistics show this is true, I would like to take a moment to note that the lead singer of Mayhem, a Danish/Norwegian death metal band, committed suicide in 1991 and […]