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Mission statement: Women’s Magazine is devoted to inspiring, entertaining and informing the
women of Boulder and Broomfield counties. We connect women across all spectrums in our
communities by sharing their stories and supporting their endeavors. And we do so with an eye
toward enjoyment, encouragement and simple solutions for busy lives.
Women’s Magazineadvisory group
Francie Anhut,Impact on Education
Janet Beardsley,YWCA of BoulderCounty
Jan Berg,Boulder Chamber ofCommerce
Heather Drake,FlatIron Crossing Mall
Ilene Dubey,Dubey Marketing
Benita A. Duran,community leader
Jennifer Kerr,Broomfield Chamberof Commerce
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Kate Nelsonfinds a wayto turn yourshoppingaddiction intoa happiereco-system.Page 25.
AndieBernard,fitnessexpert,shares thedo’s anddon’ts ofstarting yourrunningseason.Page 16.
LeahCharneyfaces thetruth abouther lovelife, albeitunwillingly.Page 18.
ManoraNygrenrecommendsthree herbsespeciallycalming forwomen.Page 33.
Getting global38 Readers share their life-changing travel experiences.
10 Reach across the globe without getting out of your seat.
21 Our man of the month wrote the book on multiculturalism — literally.
44 Tips on how to make the world your own inspiration.
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’ve only had onenickname in mylife: May. That’s
how much I love this month.The smell of lilacs, the
comfortable warmth beforethe summer’s sweatiness and,oh by the way, my birthday.I made my mother a motheron Mother’s Day 30 years agothis month.
My poor mom. I don’t wantto count how many Mother’sDays she not just shared withme, but outright gave to me.We’d try to do Mother’s Dayin the morning, birthday inthe afternoon. But my mom was too selfless and stubbornquickly opening her cards and then pulling out my cake. Shecouldn’t take even a minute from me. And this, after my birthwas nearly one month late. Like I said, poor mom.
May after May, she gave me her Mother’s Days. Shared herflowers with me. Made me tea and gave me gifts on the daythat I had subsequently given her and taken from her. Shenever complained.
Then, last summer, my mom and I were visiting a refugeecamp in Uganda, volunteering with the nonprofit she founded,Think Humanity (www.thinkhumanity.org). Suddenly,everyone around us burst into song. Hundreds of Africanorphans surrounded my mother, singing a song they hadwritten about her. My mother, “Mama Africa.” Their nicknamefor her.
No daughter has ever felt so proud.Ever.That’s why I’m giving her the entire month of May this year.
It’s all yours, Mama. And anyway, I don’t want to be 30 yet.Hey, I’ve been running late since before my birth.
For another story about life-changing travels, check out ourcover story about a local group’s volunteer work in Nepal. Ifthe economy has you Boulder-stuck, read about multiculturalkitchens on page 37.
— Aimee [email protected]
I W ith the onset of May, we’ve been talking a lotabout mothers lately. And we’re not alone:Mother’s Day is huge. Restaurants say it’s
the No. 1 day for reservations. It’s reportedly the No. 1 day forlong-distance telephone calls. It ranks second to Christmas forconsumer spending, and it’s in the Top 3 for greeting cards. Itaccounts for one-fourth of our holiday floral purchases.
So yeah, it’s pretty huge.But unlike say, Christmas, which has more or less had
at least a technical definition for centuries, what we honoron Mother’s Day is infinitely variable. It depends on ourrelationships with our mothers — the tireless stay-at-homecaretakers, family chauffeurs and homemakers certainlydeserve that coveted restaurant reservation above all others,but those of us who have lovingly outsourced a lot of thatwork still really, really appreciate it.
If your mother was a march-on-Washington activist, youmay honor this occasion with some activism of your own. Ifshe was a real nester, never happier than when surrounded byfamily, a big party may be the order of the day.
For those of us relatively new mothers, we get the split-personality day, where we reflect on how we are still ourmothers’ daughters — even if our mothers have long sincepassed — but we’re forming the new traditions of our ownpersonal Mother’s Day as well. Two parties in one: What’s notto like about that?
— Erika [email protected]
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LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR
Last month we askedyou what journeyyou’ve taken thatcompletely changedyour life or changed yourperspective.Here are your responses.
The journey I took fromNew York to Colorado wasfilled with changes I neverthought would happen. Oneday you are going fast, gettingthings done and valuing yoursmarts. I proudly left people inthe dust if they “couldn’t makeit.” After several months inColorado I realized there was atype of kindness I was not usedto. Courtesy still had value andpatience was not only a virtue,but a necessity for a healthylifestyle. I truly believe it isbecause the greatest vision wehave here is not manmade. Themountains remind me everyday that I am small and have towork to be grand.
— Jean Dineen, 49, Boulder
Walking through the ruinsand wondering not only howChichen Itza could have beenbuilt, but also why and whathappened to this incrediblesite and the Inca civilization leftme with overpowering feelingsof past, present and future.How such an impressivecivilization could have comeand gone, along with manyother civilizations, made meunderstand how important nowis, and also how unimportantdaily annoyances are. I nowlook at the big picture, and tryto make each moment count,even if the moment is nothingmore than popcorn at a movie.Yes, it’s important to makethe best of every situation,and try to improve the world,because effort counts and whatwe make of our current world(and how we leave it) counts.
And I truly believe everyonecan make a difference, andshould try. Sandy Seliga, 58,Westminster
This past spring break,I joined the student-runorganization known as theHOLA Foundation on amedical-relief trip to Nicaraguafor 11 days.
I started the trip with thecommitment to leave all of myjudgments and apprehensionsat home; my goal was to learneverything that I could aboutthis culture, its people and theirbeliefs. Most of my time wasspent just simply being withpeople; I gained trust throughkindness, which allowed me tocreate a space in which I couldask them the harder questions.
I have learned that in no wayis health care standardizedthroughout the world. It’s notuntil you explore a culture itshistory, its beliefs, its peoplethat you can treat its illnessesand create a sustainable formof health care. My ultimategoal was to leave Chacrasecahaving made a difference.This trip has opened up newpossibilities in my life andhas inspired me to stand for achange in our world by havinglove of humanity.
— Megan Richard, 23,Boulder
Following my collegegraduation from the University
of Georgia, I faced a dilemma:Should I stay in Atlanta andaccept an insurance job offer ortravel to New Zealand for threemonths with a work visa?
A senior professor offeredthis statement of advice: “Youcould be in Atlanta lookingout the window of your officethinking ‘I could be in NewZealand’ or you could be inNew Zealand thinking youcould be in an Atlanta office.”
I opted for New Zealand andultimately extended my stay to11 months. The experiences Ihad there helped me to growas a person exponentially,cultivating my independencemuch more so than if I hadstayed in Atlanta close to myfriends and family. I learnedhow to interact with otherswho were different from meand gained the ability to adaptto change more quickly andgracefully. My year abroadhelped me to accept who I wasand to be proud of my rootsand more confident in mychoices. It also sparked in mea keen interest in travel, theoutdoors and writing, whichhas significantly diverted myintended career path.
It also led me to my futurehusband!
— Reagen Lowrey, 28,Boulder
Next month: What hasbeen the most thrillingexperience of your life?Share your responses [email protected].
What’s wrong?Can someone tell me what
is wrong with asking someonethe question, “What happenedto you?” When you see thatit’s obvious that someone hasbeen injured, do you look theother way? Does anyone takethe time to say, “Are you OK?Is there anything I can do foryou?”
I refuse to believe we havebecome such a thoughtless,uncaring society, all behavingas bystanders in the world welive. What we need now morethan ever to care about thepeople around us.
I had an opportunity towatch this behavior in actionthis week, running my usualerrands, meeting with people,even talking to friends. I hadgone in last week for some“beautification” treatments, andI came out looking as though Ihad been in an awful accident,or worse beaten up. No onetook the time to say anythingto me. They looked at my face,and they said, “Have a niceday,” but no one seemed tocare if I was hurt, or worse indanger.
My organization,Courage is Change (www.courageischange.org), isdedicated to ending violenceand teaching people how tobuild healthy relationships. Thekind of personal disinterestand emotional distancing thatI experienced last week is thefoundation on which domesticviolence and child abuse isallowed to thrive. It has to end.
Maybe if we care about oneanother more, women andchildren in domestic violencesituations would feel likesomeone cared. Maybe theywould come to the difficultrealization, “This is not OK,”and find the strength to getaway.
Please, don’t be afraid to ask.Your interest and caring maysave someone’s life.
— Liz Oster, of Superior
Sandy Seliga in Rome, Italy
CorrectionsA photo in April’s Women’s
Magazine with the “Datingand Other Bad Habits”column should have had aphotographer’s credit. Thephoto was taken by JunichiroAoyama.
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Elena Smirnova, ofBoulder, is a winner ofthe Bradshaw and BuonoInternational PianoCompetition and had hersecond performance atthe ABC Gala Concert inCarnegie Hall, New York,March 30.
Smirnova is a graduatedegree candidate studying inNew York City at ManhattanSchool of Music withrenowned pedagogue andconcert pianist James Tocco.
Carolyn French, a victimspecialist on the BoulderDistrict Attorney’s staff,won the national SocialWorker of the Year Awardfrom the Colorado Chapter
of the National Associationof Social Workers. Frenchhas worked as a victimadvocate in the DistrictAttorney’s Office duringthree administrations.She is currently servingas the clinical supervisorfor Master of Social Workstudents who are interningwith the District Attorney’sOffice.
The following womenreceived the St. Vrain ValleyWomen of Distinction award:
Corrine Ahlberg hasbeen the owner and funeraldirector of Ahlberg FuneralChapel in Longmont since1947, helping countlessfamilies work through thegrief and loss of losing aloved one.
Martha Allison hasbeen an active Girl Scout
volunteer since the early’80s. She has acted as aStephen Minister with FirstUnited Methodist Churchin Longmont, servedas a mentor at SpanglerElementary School for KidsHope USA and participatedin international missionteam work. Allison iscurrently a member of theGirl Scouts of ColoradoMembership ConnectionCommittee, a group ofvolunteers working toguide the direction of theorganization, and acts as thehistorical collection managerfor the northern region ofthe state.
Susan Jennings is thegolf shop manager at FoxHill Country Club and hascoached the St. Vrain Valleyschool district women’s golfteam since its inception in
2000.Connie Lehman owns
and operates K-Theatresin Longmont and is thedirector of communityservices for the LongmontTimes-Call. She belongsto the Longmont St. VrainRotary and has served twoterms as president of herPEO chapter. She is oneof the original members ofthe “Heart of Longmont”merchants association toredevelop the downtownshopping district and hasserved on the board forthe Longmont TheatreCompany.
Got good news aboutlocal women? Visit www.mytowncolorado.com tosubmit community news itemsand photographs.
Check out www.womensmag.com forblogs, photo galleries,new videos and linksto all of our storiesonline.Be our Myspacefriend: www.myspace.com/womensmag.
In the current economicstate, one of the areassuffering the most isnonprofits. Here are someWeb sites that make it easyto donate to a good cause.The best part is, you don’teven have to leave thehouse. So log on to these
sites and help make theworld a better place.
www.freerice.comThis site offers a fun
vocabulary quiz that fillsbellies for each correctanswer. For each synonymyou get correct, the sitedonates 10 grains of rice.Not a linguist? Switch tochemistry, math or art andkeep racking up the grains.I guess the saying goes,“Teach a (wo)man how todo chemistry, and the worldeats for days.”
www.experience-educate.org
The mission statement ofthis charity is “to educateand empower the nextgeneration of sociallyresponsible leaders in
Africa.” Eric Glustrom, aBoulder local, founded thecompany after he visitedthe Kyangwali RefugeeSettlement in Uganda.
The site providesinformation about the needs,goals and how the programworks. It also allows you todonate online, and supportsall of the “techie” tools,including Facebook groups,e-mail signature codes and anewsletter sign-up.
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Know an inspirationalbusinesswoman whom youthink should be featuredin Close Up? E-mail us [email protected].
L ast August, afteryears of beinga stay-at-home
mom, Betsy Abbott cameout of her self-described“mom coma.”
Although this Coal CreekCanyon woman lovedbeing immature with hertwo daughters, Sylvie andBella, running around hermountain home with nopants on and fairy wings, shewas ready to do somethingmore with her life.
As Abbott tried to figureout what she would do next,she watched her favoriteshow “Supernatural” onthe CW network and beganplaying on the Internet.She discovered Websites like Photobucket.com and Deviantart.com,where she found original“Supernatural” artwork.
Abbott felt inspired. Thenshe thought to herself,“Someone should just makea magazine with this greatart.” And that’s what she did.
Armed with nothing morethan a history working innewspapers and a booktitled “How to Not Start aMagazine” by B. Ann Bell,Abbott created “Famazon”magazine out of herhome office. “Famazon”is a science fiction tributemagazine by “fan girls” for“fan girls.” She printed 5,000copies of the first two issues
and says she will ship toanyone in the world whowants a copy. The magazineis a combination of the silly,serious and geeky.
She started the companywith $144. Abbott gluedwhite printer paper to thepages of “Smart Cookie”magazine for the first layoutdraft design. She thencolored in the pages withstick men and story ideas.
“I didn’t know what elseto do,” Abbott says. “Maybethe next issue I’ll lay out on acomputer.”
The process, which shedescribes as getting an MBAand psychotherapy at thesame time, has been fast andchallenging. Still, the thirdissue is due out in July. Herbiggest challenge now isfunding. She is looking foradvertisers.
We wanted to knowmore about this hilariousbusinessmom who startedan entire magazine just
because she wanted to.So we asked her ninequestions about life, love andsuperheroes.
1. If you were asuperhero, who wouldyou be?
I’d be the Clutterer. Ableto stop bad guys by throwingclutter at them. Kind of likeStorm, but with papers andstuff. If my husband were asuperhero, he’d be the WetBlanket.
2. What is somethingyou wish you knew 20years ago?
To better moisturize myskin. Why didn’t I listen tomy mother?
3. What is yourgreatest achievement?
I would say giving birthwithout drugs, which wasnot the plan.
4. What are threethings on your “bucketlist” (i.e. things you wantto do before you “kickthe bucket”)?
Sleep at the base of avolcano, again. I would loveto see my face on the backof a hard-cover novel I’vewritten. And the third thingon my bucket list is to seemy children’s children.
6. If you couldeliminate one thing youdo in the bathroom everyday, what would it be?
Blowing my nose. Thathappens way too often.
7. Did you have anickname growing up?
Besty Wetsy. And theywould call me Boobsy,because I developed early.
8. What is a turningpoint in your life thatmakes you smile or cry?
I guess the moment ithit me that I was going todo this magazine. That’s asmile and cry one.
9. What would you do ifyou could be invisible fora day?
I would probablysneak into a back stageshowing of DeVotchKa.Any band that has a tuba,an accordion and a violinworks for me.
To learn more about“Famazon” magazine or tosubscribe online, check outwww.famazons.com.
— By Jessica Warnock
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Abbott is a member of“Mompreneurs AdvisoryBoard.”
The group membersare all mothers andsmall business ownersin Boulder Countrywho provide advice andguidance to each other.For more information orto join call 303-642-3105,or e-mail [email protected].
Part mom, part superhero,pure ‘Famazon’
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I f you still have your job, you’re probably moregrateful to still be working than you have beenin the past. Remember your career concerns in
past years: How can you maximize your potential? Networkwith the people who will help you advance? Becomeindispensable to your boss, to your clients?
Now, just having a workplace obligation to get up for inthe morning may seem like enough.
But don’t make that mistake: Now is the perfect timeto put yourself in a prime position for the future. If theeconomy does have a negative impact on your careeror business, networking now can help you survive thedownturn. And when the economy inevitably recovers,wouldn’t it be great if you came out ahead of where youwere before? (Your stock portfolio notwithstanding.)
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T o manywomen,the idea of
participating in a triathlon isdownright scary.
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In its fifth year, Tri forthe Cure has raised about ahalf a million dollars for theDenver affiliate of the SusanG. Komen for the CureFoundation. On Sunday,Aug. 2, about 3,000 womenwill come together to raisemoney for the fight againstbreast cancer.
Because Tri for the Cureisn’t a hardcore triathlon,it’s a great way for novicesto get their feet wet. Butthere is still room for theseasoned triathlete to feelchallenged.
Cannon, of Nederland,who spent 14 yearscompeting professionallyas a triathlete, has been thespokeswoman for the eventsince its inception.
Starting in early spring,Tri for the Cure hostsmany free or inexpensivetalks, training sessions andclinics. They’re optional, butCannon says attending canhelp alleviate anxiety.
“We really try to helpthem get off on the rightfoot,” Cannon says. “They’vethought of everythingthat would make a womanscared, and they’ve fixed it.”
Race day is a continuationof that support, not just by
the Tri for the Cure staffand volunteers, but alsoby the racers. Participantscan sign-up as individualsfor $85 or in teams of twoto three for $150. Use thebuddy system and competewith a friend, or do relayswith a team.
Participants can alsosolicit pledges. Those whoraise the most can race in
the survivor’s wave withthe participants who havebeaten breast cancer,according to Cannon.
“You talk about lovinglife,” Cannon says. “Whenyou have a new lease onlife, you’re excited. This iswhere it gets real.”
Participants shouldbegin training at least sixto eight weeks out. Cannonrecommends starting in thespring so you can start slowand ramp up. She suggestsgetting a training partner tomotivate you, involving kidsand making it social.
“Get a group togetherand decide to ride ‘here’for a muffin and then ride
home. I think the trainingis important, but the socialpart is important for women,as well,” she says.
Tri for the Cure is aboutencouraging everyone to
participate.To learn more about Tri
for the Cure, visit www.triforthecure-denver.com.
— By Annie Brokaw
Just for youOn training — Check out the Fit and Female story
on page 16 for specific early race training tips.On cancer — Read Deandra Trevino’s column
about life with cancer on page 45.On health and women — Cannon also started
Women’s Quest 18 years ago with the mission ofproviding retreats for women that help to restore,rejuvenate and revitalize them. Check out www.womensquest.com.
WOMEN ACTING UP
Colleen Cannonfights for a cure
Colleen Cannon is the founder and director of Women’s Quest.
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— Colleen Cannon
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S pring is here andthe nice weatherand fresh racing
calendar gives you a chanceto set new goals and trainsmarter and faster this year.While the flowers and treesbloom, you too can bloominto the athlete you’vealways wanted to be.
Here are a few do’s anddon’ts when kicking offearly season training.
Do start off slowly withendurance (base training),and delay interval training.
Train 50 to 70 percentof your maximum heartrate for four to eight weeksbefore you start pushing theintervals. You want to workyour slow twitch musclefibers and improve yourbody’s efficiency as using fatas its primary fuel source.
Don’t think you can startoff where you left off.
“But I was running half-marathons and marathonslast season!” Again, start offslowly. Run shorter distanc-es. There’s plenty of time toincrease your mileage. Yourbody needs to rebuild theconnective tissue betweenyour joints, and too muchtoo soon will likely lead toinjury and burnout.
Do set realistic goals.Breaking 40 minutes in
the Bolder Boulder may notbe in the cards, but it is defi-nitely possible to improveyear to year may by settinga race goal, sticking to it byfollowing a training plan.
Don’t give up.Competing doesn’t have
to be about winning. It’sabout having a goal, puttingthe time into improving yourlifestyle and watching yourbody respond. The race isjust the end of the journey.When it seems like there’snot enough time to “fit it in,”
remember that your body isthe best instrument that youown. So use it wisely.— By Andie Bernard
Bernard, of Boulder, is the
director and head coach ofTri Babes Training, www.tribabestraining.org. Sendyour fitness questions [email protected].
Why exercise?
56 — Percent ofwomen work out toimprove their mood.
23 — Percent workout to make theirmuscles look good.
13 — Percentexercise to sleep better.
8 — Percent want toeat more junk food.
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“Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make youmad.”
— Aldous Huxley
H ere is thetruth: I’mnot ready to
write/talk/feel the truth.I know what it is, but I
don’t know that I’m ready todo anything about it. I oncebelieved that knowledgewas power. Now I realize itcan be just as confusing toknow all the answers. I knowwhere love and I stand andtruthfully, it pisses me off.
I am afraid. I have thewords “Live Fearlessly”tattooed on my hip. It’s notbecause I can’t face my life.It’s because I want to makesure I’ve checked myselfat the end of every day. Yetfor someone who takes somuch pride in all this livingfearlessly business, I mustadmit I’m scared.
I am afraid of being “too”much: too interesting (as ifthere were such a thing); tooweird; too many battle scars.But at the same time, in thissimple dichotomy, I wantto do more growing beforemeeting my someone. Imean have some adventures,fight pirates, collectsouvenirs and battle scars,live a life belonging to meand then stand before theBonnie to my Clyde and say,“Here I am. This is me. Takeme as I am.” As Audree, mytoo-smart-for-her-own-goodoffice assistant told me,“Every woman aspires to bea booty-collecting, mind-blowing pirate.”
The truth is, I am just asafraid of falling in love as I
am that I will never fall inlove again.
I mention this fear (ofhappiness? Commitment?What is so terrifyingexactly?) at dinner. AC, mybest friend’s husband, statespoetically, “When you giveyour heart, you risk gettingit stomped on, but you do itanyway.”
I raise an eyebrow beforereplying sassily, “Maybeyou do. I think at this pointI’d rather let someone elsedo the risking. I’m not thereyet.” And that is the truth.
I mention my fears to EJYoder, my former collegeprofessor at the Universityof Colorado and an expert ininternational relations andintercultural communication.She married after she was40, has certainly establisheda life belonging to her andhas traveled the worldcollecting souvenirs andbattle scars. Her house iscovered in photos fromChina, Bosnia and summerson the Jersey shore. Iwonder if at any point shelooked around at her lifeand was terrified by the “toointeresting” problem.
“When I met Roberto[her husband of more thanfour years now] I was ready.I wanted to get married,wanted to have a family. Ibelieved I deserved it and,furthermore, I wanted it,”this woman I admire tells mewith a tone of understanding.
How long will it take me todecide I’m finally ready to ripoff the commitment Band-Aid and have another honestto God serious relationship?
I ask the guy I’m currentlyseeing: “What is the truth
about love?”I’m half-joking, half-
serious, as always. We’vebeen seeing each other alittle more than a month, andI think we’re both the kindof people who are terrifiedabout these kinds of things.But that’s why it works, fornow.
“Love is like a cage
match,” he says with a smirk.“Two people enter but onlyone leaves.”
Smart ass. Except that fornow, anyway, I completelyagree.— Leah M. CharneyContact Charneyat [email protected] and www.datingandotherbadhabits.com.
DATING AND OTHER BAD HABITS
Facing the truth
Charney
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Editor’s note: A versionof this column ran onMother’s Day in the Cameranewspaper in 2006.
T o honor thisMother’sDay, I want
to address the woman whogave me life.
I know you’ve never heardfrom me on Mother’s Daybefore. Sorry about that. Ittook becoming a mother forme to appreciate you, whichis why it’s taken me so long.
That’s not to say I haven’tthought about you. I did!Throughout the years, I’vethought occasionally aboutthe things you’ve givenme: my eyes, my hair, myfreckles.
It wasn’t until the birth ofmy own children that I cameto fully realize what you’vereally given me.
My family, my whole life.See, my parents — that
nice infertile couple youdidn’t know, whom yougave me to when I was born— were at the hospital thenight my first daughter wasborn. And when the babystopped wailing from theshock of being born, all ofus — my mother, my father,my husband and I — lookedat each other and started tolaugh and cry.
It’s because we’re a family.And that’s because of you.
I worry about yousometimes.
We live in a tell-Oprah-your-innermost-pain kindof world. Most stories thatyou hear from adoptees arepretty grim. They want toknow the private, intimatedetails of why their biological
parents gave them up;that question fuels a voidthat cannot be filled; theirmiseries in life go backto that woman’s choice,decades ago.
I want you to know — you,personally, who made thistough choice — that I can’trelate to that.
No void. No pain. Noquestions.
When I was hunched overthe toilet for the better partof nine months, I wonderedhow much of that wasgenetic. I prayed that yourpregnancy was less barfythan my own; I hoped that Iwas a nice, calm little fetuswho didn’t kick you in theribs at 4 a.m.
A good friend — the kindthat holds your hair backwhen you’re throwing — uptold me that it would all beworth it, once I was able tohold that precious little babyin my arms, day after day.
I feel a little guilty aboutthat, knowing you didn’t getthat kind of payoff from me.Maybe all that trouble — thesickness of pregnancy and
the battles with the unwieldypostpartum body — didn’tfeel worth it to you.
I wish I could somehowhelp you feel deep in yourheart that it was worth it.You created something sostrong and natural, a family,by making the choice thatyou did.
I have so much to bethankful for, with my listgrowing each year. Rightnow it seems that the bestthing that has happenedto my life is comprised inthe bodies of two growinggirls — one with boundlesscreative energy and acontagious, deep-belly laugh,the other with a mellowcuriosity and a smile so big itscrunches up her entire face.
But I wouldn’t have mydaughters, at least not thisparticular pair, if I didn’t havemy husband.
Of course, my parentsfooted the bill for thecollege where my husbandand I met. Much moreimportantly, they raised meto have the kind of spirit thatled to my current status as
happy wife and mother.But they wouldn’t have
had me at all without you,the woman who gave me lifeand then made the difficultdecision to give me away.
You created a family bynot starting one of your own,at least not then, at least notwith me.
So the best thing thathappened to me so far in mylife — the very best thing —is you.
So on the cusp of thisyear’s Mother’s Day, Iwanted to say thanks to theparents who chose to placetheir children with adoptivefamilies. Thanks for yourunbelievable, staggeringselflessness. You havebrought much joy into thisworld.
A special thanks to myown biological mom, who I’dlike to think is reading thisright now. Happy Mother’sDay, from one mother toanother.
I love you, for the choicethat you made.— By Erika Stutzman,[email protected]
IN A FAMILY WAY
A Mother’s Day message
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Know someone we shouldfeature in Men We Love?We’re talking the total pack-age: brains, beauty and aservant’s heart. Yes, believeit or not, there are plentyof good guys out there whoare multi-dimensional, andwe’re always on the prowlto recognize them. E-mailnominations to [email protected].
L ee Shainisstarted early.
He first beganvolunteering at homelessshelters in high school. Atthe University of Michigan,Shainis volunteered in theprison system and withpeople with disabilities.
He decided to pursue acareer with a nonprofit whenhe graduated. En route toOregon from Michigan in1999 to seek such a job,Shainis found himself inBoulder. He has been hereever since.
In 2000, Shainis and hisfriend, Shawn Camden,started Intercambio deComunidades, a nonprofit to“build respectful communi-ties and increase opportuni-ties for immigrants throughlanguage education, culturalexchange and friendship.”Intercambio has sinceserved 4,000 students of allages from about 50 coun-tries, and with the help of2,000 volunteers.
Recently Shainis, 31, pub-lished a guide called “WhatEvery Immigrant Needs toKnow,” which contains 170essentials for American life— info about laws, health,politics, finances and more.
“I’m pretty passionateabout that because it usuallytakes years for people tolearn this stuff, and oftentimes people get in troublebefore they learn,” saysShainis.
We wanted to know moreabout Shainis and his heartof gold, so we asked him fivequestions, plus one becausehe’s so fun. Then we posedthe same questions to hismother, Susan Freiman, ofPotomac, Md.
Oh, and Lee? You mightwant to watch your back— your mom has a bit ofan issue with one of youranswers.
If you could have onesuper power, what wouldit be and why?
Lee: The ability to influ-ence policymakers wheneverand however I wanted. Idon’t want to get into poli-tics, but I would like to haveheavy influence on issues Ifeel strongly about.
Susan: I think he wouldmake everyone see thingspositively. Lee really dislikesnegativity and thinks thereare just too many peoplewho see the glass half emptyand complain instead ofdoing something to makethings better.
What is one thing aboutyou we would neverguess?
Lee: People say I look bet-ter when I wear dresses.
Susan: He was kind ofquiet when he was a little kid
When you were young-er, what did you want to
be when you grew up andwhy?
Lee: I wanted to be a doc-tor because I knew that doc-tors help people. Then I tookorganic chemistry in collegeand decided I didn’t want tobe a doctor that badly.
Susan: Lee wanted to beSuperman because he lovedthat little red cape and woreit everywhere.
If you were to live inanother country, wherewould you live and why?
Lee: Mexico maybe. Ihave some wonderful friendsfrom there, there are manydifferent regions and cul-tures, I speak the languageand the slang, and it’s not toofar from the U.S. so I couldcome back and visit my fam-ily and friends often.
Susan: A country inSouth America, probablyPeru. It has a diverse popula-tion, a great culture and hehas a lot of friends in Peruthat he made through hisparticipation with DoctorsWithout Borders.
What is your favoritetravel destination?
Lee: Iquitos, Peru. For the
past three years, I’ve gonethere and done some coolvolunteer work at a non-governmental organizationfor street kids, translatingfor doctors on a medicalmission, and doing healtheducation clown shows withShawn Camden at schools insmall villages.
Susan: Potomac, Md. Itreally isn’t but I think he willsay that since that is whereI live and he knows I will killhim if he doesn’t say that.
What is the most impor-tant lesson your motherever taught you?
Lee: To respect mymother. And she showed mehow important it is to giveand receive love. I got luckyin the mom category. (Goodrecovery, Lee.)
Susan: To always dressconservatively. Lee alwaysdoes the opposite of what Itell him. Just check him outon Facebook and you’ll knowwhat I mean.
On the WebLearn more about Inter-
cambio — www.intercambio-web.org— By Annie Brokaw
MEN WE LOVE
What every woman needsto know about Lee Shainis
Lee Shainis
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SIMPLY YOU
Bathroom Organization:An organized beauty queen
W omen liketheir beautyproducts.
And most women are veryvisual and think they needto have everything out orthey won’t remember theyhave it. Not true. If I giveyou a system that you cantrust, will you please useit and keep things off yourcounter?
Peter Walsh, of Oprah’s“Clean Up Your MessyHouse Tour” and TLC’s“Clean Sweep,” says thatonce your surfaces arecluttered, you’re doomed.It’s discouraging to try toput on makeup or straightenyour hair when you can’trest your well-manicuredpinky on the counter. Yourcabinets and drawers areessential to keeping yourbathroom organized. Itemsshould be off the counterand stored in well organizedand structured drawers andcabinets.
Here is a tip to let youcreate some new order inyour bathroom:
A,B,C space.I say it all the time. When
you’re organizing any space,this rule is handy.
Know where your “A, Band C” spaces will be beforeyou start. This will help youknow exactly where to storeevery item you uncover.
A space: Items used daily.Bathroom: Keep in your topdrawer.
Toothpaste, daily make-up and brushes, dailyface cream, cotton swabs,mouthwash, dental floss,
hair bands/pins, dailyjewelry and perfume.
(I know you use yourblow dryer daily, too. Butthat won’t fit in your topdrawer. See my “productsuggestion” for a way toeffortlessly organize yourlarge hair care items in acabinet.)Bonus tip: Use a drawerdivider to keep yourtoothbrush away fromyour hair bands withunruly strands of hair youdon’t want in your mouth.Stackable dividers canmaximize space in a deepdrawer.Eco tip: I reused a Harryand David Pear Box from aholiday gift I received. It’ssimply a shallow cardboardbox with cardboard dividers.So simple and yet genius forseparating my supplies.
B space: Items usedweekly.
Bathroom: Store in yoursecond drawer.
Face masks, scrubs,specialty creams, bath salts.
C space: Items usedseveral times a year.Bathroom: Store on shelvesor in a closet.
Medicines/first aid, extratoilet paper, back-stock ofdeodorant, toothbrushes/paste, razors, guest soaps,pedicure supplies, extramake-up, sunscreen. I storethese items in a linen closetin the hallway. The shelvesare labeled so I know whatI’m missing when I’m out.
I know it’s tough beinga woman (or a metro-man)because we have so manyproducts. But it’s worth itto organize your bathroom.You will save time in yourmorning routine and moneyby not buying duplicates ofproducts you already own.
Tiny bathroomsIf you’re an unfortunate
goddess with a super-smallbathroom, I have someadvice for you, too.
Étagère: Fancy name forthe metal shelving thatstands around and aboveyour toilet. This can be anexcellent place to storetowels or extra baskets ofmakeup. Use this wall spaceto your advantage.
Under-the-sink storage:If you have those narrow-beyond-belief-double-doorsunder your sink, you needsome shelving for thingsyou want to keep handy. Irecommend setting up anunder-the-sink shelvingunit that you can buy atMcGuckins and customizearound your pipes. No joke,this is the coolest part ofthis product. You add planksto the shelves where youdon’t have pipes. It’s easyand will instantly doubleyour space.
— By Liz CanavanCanavan, of Boulder, is
a professional organizerwith Alchemy of Order andthe marketing director ofthe National Associationof Professional Organizers.Got questions on how tosimplify your life? Contacther at 303-641-4760, [email protected] or www.alchemyoforder.blogspot.com.
Liz Canavan in an organizedbathroom.
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ECO-DIVA
M y best friendrecentlyoffered to
nominate me for the realityshow “What Not to Wear.”This confused me. Thepeople who go on that showneed serious fashion help. Imay not be Jackie O, but I’mnot in that category right?
OK, so maybe my day-to-day style is a little meatand potatoes. I tend to stickto multipurpose basics(read: boring), as my innerearth mama sees buyinglots of new clothes as anenviro-violation. The result:
a hodge-podge thrift storewardrobe and a friend tryingto put me on reality TV.
After my BFF’s subtlekick in the butt, I felt readyto shop for clothes thathaven’t yet been owned byothers. Outfits even. Buthow does one do this and notcontribute to pesticide-ladencotton fields and sweat shoplabor?
Enter Ellie’s Eco-HomeStore. If Target andGreenpeace had a love-child, it would be this store.Found in Boulder’s VillageShopping Center at 2525
Arapahoe Ave., Ellie’s is aconvenient one-stop shopfor all your green needs,including clothes.
Only fair trade certified,eco-friendly fabrics likeorganic cotton and recycledpolyester are allowed tograce the racks. Throw outany misconceptions thatorganic cotton clothingonly equals endlessyoga coordinates. Theclothing lines at Ellie’soffer something for many
occasions and styles.For starters, the Seattle-
made Prairie Undergroundline makes knits that arefashion forward with asplash of funky. Frilly topsfrom Ecoganiks are perfectfor girly-gals. Graphic teesprinted by Topo Ranch ($28)will suit those with an ironicside.
For meat and potata’sdressers like me, GoodSociety’s jeans ($98 a pair)are so natural that theyrecommend adding themto your compost pile whenthey wear out. Hmm. Andas for those endless yogacoordinates, Blue Canoe hasyour Sun Salutations coveredall day long.— By Kate Nelson
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Shopping Outdoor Divas in fiveEvery month, we feature a different shop in town. This month:
Outdoor Divas, 1133 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-DIVA (3482),www.outdoordivas.com
It’s spring! It’s time to enjoy the incredible mountains, trails and lakes of BoulderCounty.
Outdoor Divas, a Boulder-based independent gear shop, is one of our favoriteplaces to get outdoor clothes whatever reason you are heading outside. This shop isrun by and specifically for women.
As it gets hot outside, here’s what hot on the outdoor style front:
YogaPrana natural yoga mat, $48.95. Made with no hazardous materials, biodegradable.Lole gray Alive hoodie, $85.95. With flower print and hand gaiters.Tonic Sunset bra, $52.95.Tonic swirl shorts, $55.95.
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HikingMountain Hardware hiking shirt, $64.95. Includes UPF sun protection of 30, zip pockets and mesh side panels.Pistil Betsy cap, $29.95. A reversible, short brim page-boy cap made out of lightweight cotton. Gregory Jade backpack,
$149.95.Lightweight women’s pack with excellent organization and access points and a moisture-wicking belt and harness.Asolo Omni GV shoes, $129.95 in light gray and purple. Made with a Gor-Tex membrane and water-resistant suede.
Water sportsCarve Belles beach
rash guard, $46.95.Patagonia bikini,
$44.Patgonia Shortie
Boardies, $55.Teva Mush shoes
(not pictured), $24.95.Considered one ofthe most comfortableflip-flops around. Likea memory mattress,your feet sink intoplace.
LifestyleStonewear Twister
dress, $59.95. With aflattering empire waistand built-in bra. Thissummer dress is perfectfor dinner, runningerrands or traveling.
Merrell Genoasandals, $49 (notpictured). Merrellspecializes in women’sfootwear, recognizinga woman’s foot isnarrower than a man’sfoot. Women’s feet alsohave a higher in-step andarch with proportionallylonger toes and longercalf muscles.
Photos byJonathan Castner
Stylist: Angel Garcia,www.pinupprettymua.com
Model: Kem Minnick
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More than justa pretty face
H ave faith. Practice forgiveness.And be love.
Those are words this month’smodel, Kem Minnick, lives by. Minnick, who isproudly a few months shy of 40 years old, hasquite the background.
She was born in West Virginia, studiedmodern dance in college, and moved to Texas towork as a professional equestrian for 10 years.She began studying yoga in 1997 to enhance herhorseback riding. Soon, yoga led her to Boulder,where she studied and taught Ashtanga,including classes to people with developmentaldisabilities.
She is currently translating yoga into Spanish(she’s fluent), and running the high-endresidential landscaping company, The DevicGardener (720-435-2430). This company turnslawns into lavish gardens that are completelyorganic, sustainable and chemical-free.
Minnick wants her entire life to be natural.About 75 percent of her diet is raw. Not onlyhas this changed her life from the inside out,making her feel lighter and more energetic, butit is also good for the environment. Minnickbarely eats anything out of a package althoughshe confesses, she does occasionally indulgein a cheeseburger, and Vietnamese pho is herweakness.
Because of what she puts into her body,Minnick says she is in better shape today thanshe was when she was 25, and she doesn’t haveto exercise as much.
“I have more time for intellectual pursuits, tobe more creative and do volunteer work,” shesays. “I love my body more now. I’m raw and Ipractice yoga, and it all helps with emotional andspiritual and financial stability.”
To learn more about a raw food diet, contactBoulder chef Brigitte Mars at 303-442-4967 orwww.brigittemars.com.
— By Aimee Heckel
RunningSkirtSports Marathon tank, $44.95. Extra length covers
tummies and stays put while running. Skirt Sports is aBoulder-based company.
SkirtSports GymGirl Ultra, $64.95, skirt with built-inrunning shorts. With one pocket on each leg and music porton the side of the skirt.
Pearl Izumi Peak XC shoes, $114.95. Lightweight trailshoes.
Outdoor Divas mesh running hat, $19.95.
View more photos from this fashion shootat www.womensmag.com.
PROFILE
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Story by Paula Pant
ATHMANDU,Nepal In thissix-building,100-bed hospitalin a busy sectionof this city, all the
florescent light bulbs havebeen removed to save energycosts. Latex gloves are usedsparingly, pap smear swabsare sterilized for re-use, andmedical files are stored onpaper.
“I’m thinking of rigging thephones to automatically cutout after three minutes,” saysexecutive chairman GuptaShrestha, 50. The city’s pro-vider charges by the minute.
For more than a decade,Shrestha has been the headof Helping Hands Commu-nity Hospital, a full-service op-eration started by the peopleof Boulder County. Like manyothers, he started his HelpingHands career as a volunteer.About 32 of the 40 doctorshere, Shrestha says, arevolunteers.
Shrestha keeps an exami-nation table in his window-less office in a congestedneighborhood in the capitalof Nepal, a Himalayan nationpoised as the buffer betweenChina and India and home toeight of the world’s 10 tallestmountains, including Mt.Everest.
A decade-long bloodycommunist insurgency,culminating in 2006 with theoverthrow of the absolutemonarch, has destabilizedthis nation, which is nowruled by a coalition govern-ment led by former Maoistrebels. The civil strife, com-bined with rampant corrup-tion, lack of infrastructureand a tendency toward earth-
quakes and landslides havecombined to make Nepalamong the poorest and leastdeveloped countries in theworld. It holds a 46 percentunemployment rate.
A line of patients isgrowing outside Shrestha’sdoor. The volume of peoplewith dirty faces and stainedclothes multiplies rapidly, andtheir mutterings grow louder.They form, not a line, but atight cluster around his door,and they seem to be elbowingto stand closest to the entry.Twice in five minutes some-one raps on his door.
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A mother holds her scan into the light tolook at it more closely. Investigations, suchas scans and x-rays, are a major sourceof income for Helping Hands CommunityHospital, a shoestring operation that relies ondonated equipment and volunteer doctors.
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and lies on the examinationtable without prompting. Shecouldn’t be taller than 5 feetstanding upright, but doubledover she seems muchsmaller. Deep lines etch herface. She looks relieved to beresting. Shrestha presses herabdomen and refers her fortesting. She’s out in less thantwo minutes.
Next comes SantoshThapa, a 24-year-old farmerwhose family scraped togeth-er the funds for an urgentflight to Kathmandu after hisurinary tract closed. Thapahands the doctor his x-ray.
“See this?” Shrestha says,pointing to what looks like alarge Easter egg on the x-ray.“That’s a bladder stone 10centimeters by 5 centime-ters.” There are no patientprivacy laws here.
Ninety-nine percent ofstones larger than 6 millime-ters need medical interven-tion.
He recommends Thapa
have an operation, whichcosts the equivalent of $100at his hospital, as opposed to$300 in Kathmandu’s otherprivate hospitals.
“Government hospitals arefree,” he says, “but they havewaiting lists from six monthsto a year, and this man can’twait.”
Two decades ago, Thapa
might have been stuck onthat waiting list. But thanksto Boulder’s Helping HandsHealth Education, he can getaffordable care.
Helping Hands waslaunched by husband-and-wife team Narayan andSreejana Shrestha, Nepalese-born entrepreneurs who havemade Boulder their homesince the early 1980s. Shortlyafter they settled here,Narayan led a group of tour-ists on a trek in the Nepalesecountryside. The team, whichhappened to include severaldoctors and nurses, stumbledupon a child who had a stickprotruding through his chin.The stick had been therefor several weeks and hadbecome severely infected.
The tourists helped thechild. But everyone on thetrek was disturbed by whatthey had seen.
Narayan vowed to bringa group of medically trainedpeople to Nepal to set upa one-week mobile health
clinic. To sustain the opera-tion, the couple made a work-sharing agreement: Sreejanawould stay in Boulder, man-aging their imports store, OldTibet, at 948 Pearl St., whichwould also double as HelpingHands’ headquarters. She’dalso raise their three chil-dren. Narayan would spendas many as nine months ayear in Nepal.
Seventeen years later,more than 1,000 doctorshave provided low-cost treat-ment to more than 1 millionpatients. The Kathmanduhospital is the group’s largestproject and is one of the mostadvanced centers in the coun-try, thanks to donations fromBoulder Community Hospitaland area clinics.
Helping Hands is sustainedby people like Suzie Sch-neider, a 13-year resident ofLongmont. When Schneiderwas 36, she made an abruptlife change by moving toNepal as a Peace Corpsvolunteer. For three years,she made her home in thewest-central Dang district.
There, Schneider wit-nessed the health effects of alack of infrastructure. Whenher Nepalese coworkers’ wifedelivered a baby, she traveledto Kathmandu to do it.
“Having spent three yearsin Nepal, though not in aremote location, I did seeenough of the conditions ...lack of nearby good watersources, lack of roads andtransportation networks ... toknow that much is needed,”Schneider says.
She left Nepal in 1994,moved to Longmont, andbegan to get involved in Boul-der County’s fledging effortsto open a medical clinic inNepal. At the time, Schneidersays, there were questionsabout “whether a group of
Narayan Shrestha, ofBoulder, co-founder of HelpingHands.
Patients wait in the plaza that forms the center of the six-building Helping Hands CommunityHospital complex. Although government hospitals in Nepal are free, their waiting lists run sixmonths to one year.
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Men and women don’tdate in Nepal; their familiesarrange for them to marry.So Sreejana Maskey hadonly met Narayan face-to-face for 20 minutes beforehe asked her to marry him.
She refused. She knewalmost nothing abouthim, expect that he livedin some distant countrycalled the United States,in some unfamiliar citynamed Boulder. She wasn’tsure she wanted to spendher life so far away with astranger.
But he proposed again,immediately. And sherefused again.
So Narayan got downon one knee. It’s a noblegesture only seen inHollywood movies. Nosuitor in Nepal gets downon one knee.
Sreejana was tickled byhis romantic persistence,and she said yes to histhird proposal. Theymarried in court on Nov.16, 1986, and she movedto Boulder with him a fewweeks later.
“Ever since her arrivalin my life I became verylucky and happy,” Narayansays.
Their 23 years ofmarriage have been spentlargely apart, with Narayantaking five to six trips toNepal a year to organizeHelping Hands affairswhile she acts as the familybreadwinner in Boulder,managing their array ofsmall businesses, servingon the Helping Handsboard, and raising theirthree children.
“She used to say that aslong as you help the poor,I’ll work hard in Boulder,”Narayan says.
He once asked her if shedisliked his long absences;if she was bothered by thefact that he’s off in theirhomeland having fun whileshe’s balancing child-raising with managing thedowntown Boulder importsstore.
Her reply was, “You lovehelping the poor, and I loveyou.”
Now their children arecontinuing their legacy.Last year their son marriedthe daughter of GuptaShrestha, the executivedirector of Helping HandsCommunity Hospital.
— By Paula Pant
Back in BoulderOne woman’s story
folks stateside could have anyinfluence.”
They squashed that doubt.Within a decade, Helping
Hands opened seven mobilehealth camps in seven vil-lages and a small Kathmanduhospital that offered walk-inprimary care.
Today that Kathmanduhospital has expanded to asix-building complex that in-cludes almost every specialtyservice you can think of: acardiovascular clinic, ob/gyn specialists, opthamology,physical therapy, psychiatry,surgery, internists, dermatol-ogy, dentistry, and ear, noseand throat specialists. Thenumbers show the impact.It treats 300 to 500 peopleper day, delivers 50 babies amonth, reads 200 to 400 labsamples each day and is ad-ministering free tuberculosistreatment to 146 people.
“We have everything butneuro(logy),” says DeepakKC, a Helping Hands’ inter-national program managerand Nepalese man. “Hope-fully we’ll have that in a fewmonths.”
Santosh Thapa is nowstanding in the courtyard
in the center of the HelpingHands complex, staring athis feet. He has not spokena word since his arrival. Heis alone, and he hasn’t madeeye contact with anyone.He doesn’t look up whenShrestha strides toward him,grabs the x-ray from his handand hoists it into the daylightit for two volunteers to exam-ine. His face registers noth-ing when Shrestha describeshow the bladder stone forceshim to lean sideways tourinate.
But Thapa is lucky. Heamassed enough money toget to the hospital quickly,and enough beyond thatto pay for his treatment.Wealthy Nepalese earn $100a month; others earn thatmuch per quarter. It seemsa team of distant relatives islooking out for Thapa.
Helping Hands has nowestablished more than 125medical camps across thecountry. Last year it launcheda 25-bed hospital the Dangdistrict, the same areaSchneider inhabited for threeyears.
The nonprofit receives
Doctors at Helping Hands Community Hospital in Kathmanduprepare to operate on Deepa, a middle-aged Nepalese villagerwhose leg was shattered in a water buffalo attack. Surgeriesat this hospital cost one-third the price of private Kathmanduhospitals, although anesthesia is extra.
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no grant funding and has nodependable ongoing donors.Its expansion is credited tograssroots efforts from anenormous cadre of BoulderCounty supporters. The coreteam includes a Longmontdoctor who sits on the organi-zation’s board and a Boulderaccountant from Henry,Waters and Associates.
This local team procuresnot just cash. The BoulderCommunity Hospital donateddelivery tables, two ventila-tors, an anesthesia machineand a baby warmer.
“The baby warmer helps inkeeping (hypothermia) out ofthe newborn,” says nursingdirector Bharati Sapkota. “Inthe cold season, baby canfreeze.”
The walls of this com-plex, like most buildings inKathmandu, are made fromcement and steel rods. Thetemperatures rarely dipbelow freezing in the winter,thanks to Nepal’s positioningat the same latitude as Miamiand Kathmandu’s altitude ofless than 5,000 feet above sealevel. Yet lack of insulationensures it’s as cold inside as itis outside.
Helping Hands relies onBoulder County to send asmuch equipment as it canmuster.
“We get equipment fromBoulder like microscopes,wheelchairs and stretchers,”says KC. “If we had to buythose, we couldn’t.”
Each 40-foot cargo crate ofmedical supplies holds goodsvalued between $400,000 andone million dollars. Last year,Boulder’s Rotary Club raised$12,000 with matching grantmoney to cover shippingcosts. Helping Hands addedanother $4,000.
These in-kind donationscover some, but not all,needs. What can’t be givenmust be purchased.
“We spent a lot of money tobuy (electricity) converters,”Gupta Shrestha says, noddingto the American plugs thatmismatch Nepalese sockets.
Generators and batteriesare pivotal in powering thisequipment, as Kathmanduremains in the dark ages: thecity suffers 126 hours a weekwithout electricity.
Occasionally, HelpingHands must make a massivecash outlay for equipmentits donors can’t provide.Five years ago, the Boulderheadquarters gave Shrestha$10,000 for an ultrasoundmachine.
Some of this moneycomes from fees fromwomen like Tracey Hui, 24,and Rumina Mirza, 23, bothfinal-year medical students atUniversity College in Londonwho spent six weeks volun-teering for Helping Handslast fall. They stumbled uponthe organization online.
Though their fee was mini-mal $3,500 including airfare,room and board HelpingHands uses this net revenue,plus donations, to equip thehospital. The volunteers saythis is a great investment intheir education. At HelpingHands, they’ve confrontedproblems unheard of in their
home countries.“We see very late-stage
cervical cancer we’d neversee in London because ofscreening,” Hui says.
Mirza recalls one womanwho was 31 weeks pregnantcoming for her first checkup.She refused the ultrasoundbecause of the cost.
Though women areunderrepresented in Nepal’sworkforce, they constitute alarge percentage of Help-ing Hands’ leadership. Thefemale hospital administrator,Rukmani Karki, 47, keeps anup-to-the-minute account ofeverything transpiring in allsix buildings of the hospitalcomplex.
And the offices are filledwith top-talent female doctorslike obstretics specialist ShiluAdhikari, 32, who treats about20 women a day.
“I see a lot of hemorrhag-ing,” says Adhikari. “It’s themost common cause of ma-ternal death. Most will bleedfor 40 or 60 days and come tous with anemia.”
While official maternaldeath rates are undocument-ed, infant mortality in Nepalis high, at 47 deaths per 1,000births. The United States, bycomparison, has six infantdeaths per 1,000 births.
Powerful working womenlike Adhikari are a rarityin Nepal, in part becauseeducational opportunities forwomen are thin. Many fami-lies have limited means andprefer to spend their moneyeducating their sons. Only35 percent of Nepalese adultwomen are literate, as op-posed to 63 percent of adultmen, according to the CIA.
Helping Hands is com-bating this by traininglocal women to enter themedical field. In 2002, thegroup founded the HelpingHands Institute of Nursing, aKathmandu nursing school
predominately attended bywomen. It also launched theSANN Research Institute andInternational College and theSurya Boarding School.
Women hold leadershiproles in these schools.Karuna KC, 40, serves asthe administrative director ofSANN and, from her first-floor office, interfaces dailywith many of its students.
Kalpana Shrestha, vice-principal of Helping Hands In-stitute of Nursing, says she’swatching a record number ofgraduates find jobs in Austra-lia, Canada, England and theUnited States. She oversees19 fourth-year students and15 third-years all women andshe expects 90 percent tolaunch careers overseas.
This prospect thrills third-year nursing student DeepaGiri, 21. She wants to helppatients in Nepal, she says,but her knowledge feelsstagnant in a country marredby persistent strikes, protestsand blackouts.
“I can do better overseas,”Giri says, in confident Eng-lish. “And all my friends havemoved to Australia.”
As for why she wants to bea nurse?
She pauses.“I don’t know,” she replies.
“Destiny.”
A researcher takes a breakfrom studying pap smearsamples in her microscope.Almost all of the laboratoryequipment used at HelpingHands Community Hospitalwas donated, secondhand,from hospitals and clinics inColorado.
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On the WebCheck out www.womensmag.com for:• A video filmed in Nepalabout Helping Hands• A photo gallery• A column by intuitiveguide, Kimberly Jonas, onhow helping save otherscan really save you.
Learn more aboutHelping Hands, includingvolunteer opportunities,at www.helpinghands-usa.org.
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C ooking, like life,is an experimentin creativity. And
when you’re on a budget,grocery shopping andmanaging your food for theweek requires unabashedcreativity.
Fortunately, I grew up inhardscrabble, 1960s ruralAustralia with depression-eraparents. As a result, todaywhen I put into practice myfrugal-foodie skills, I’m veryaware that I’m behaving a lotlike my mum and for oncethis is good!
FYI: Eating well is notsynonymous with expensive.I know because I eat welland within my means.
If, like me, you have agrocery budget you need toadhere to, try these tips:
1. Write a grocery list.2. Buy produce in season;
it’s abundant and thuscheaper.
3. Avoid packaged food.You pay for packaging. Buybulk instead.
4. Stick to your list andavoid impulse purchases.
5. Never buy more thanyou need, and never buywhat you can’t afford.
Once home, manage yourfood for the week creatively.For example, as we movethrough spring, you’ll noticegreens, like asparagus andchard, are abundant andcheap. Subsequently, I’vebeen making deliciousand easy meals with bothrecently. You might like totry this one:
Savory Bread PuddingChop into cubes eight to
10 slices of any stale or rusticbread you have on hand.
Wash half a bunch ofchard and asparagus,removing their woody stalks.Sauté in olive oil with a littlegarlic. Optional: Add chunksof turkey bacon or sausage.
Break four eggs into abowl, whisk in 1 cups ofmilk. Fold in a half cup ofgrated cheese.
Toss bread and veggiesinto a baking dish. Seasonwith salt and pepper and 1teaspoon of dried sage orthyme or oregano.
Pour egg batter over breadand veggies. Gently pressthe lot down with back of aspatula.
Dot the top with halved,
grape tomatoes.Pop into a 350-degree oven
for about 40 minutes.Serve with a side salad.
— By Louise RossRoss, of Boulder, writes
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bushes, ground covering, shade trees and potted flowers.I actually like the wildness of the overgrowth, pushing
past the boundary of the walkway, plants meanderingwhere they please. Even the vines in my pots expand farbeyond the edges of their containers, reminding me ofsummers past when as a child I’d wander through my daywithout a schedule or worry, free from the confines of theschoolroom.
I tend my pots, clipping off dead flowers, watering andadding a little Miracle Grow to compensate for my modestgardening skills. The irises and lilacs seem to get along justfine without any assistance from me, for which I am grateful.
Spring brings the enjoyment of gardens around town withan array of colorful expressions, and I find myself drawnto the Pearl Street Mall each year where vibrant tulips linethe walkway. My neighbor has a beautifully manicured rosegarden that she tends to daily, and across the street fromher is an indigenous garden filled with wild grasses, rocksand flowering bushes. Each seems to express the gardener’sunique flair for composition of color and texture. Some arestructured with neat rows and boarders while others have anorganic quality to them.
Even in nature, gardens appear in abundance during thespring and summer. The wildflowers along the trails near myhome seem to have no other purpose beyond offering theirdelicate beauty as a gift to those passing by.
And maybe that’s why I’m drawn to my untamed garden;it is a simple and deeply satisfying source of beauty. And likethe unscheduled days of summers past, it refreshes my soul.
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W ith theeconomyin the
toilet, most people aren’tspending thousands ofdollars to remodel theirbathrooms. The same istrue for kitchens, whereremodeling projects canreach astronomical sums.
Still, your home is yoursanctuary and you don’twant to feel the strain ofthese stressful times in yourhome.
That’s where Jean Dineenand Nan Fischer come in.These two local interiordesign experts shared tipson how give your kitchenand bath a quick andstunning face-lift withoutcutting too deep into yourpocket book.
Start here:1. Make a budget and
stick to it.The best way to go over
a budget is to not have one.Also, put money aside forone luxury item. You knowyou’re going to want at leastone “gotta-have” amazingitem. Don’t deny yourself.
2. Do the work yourself.Goo is your friend! Don’t
pay people for work you cando yourself, especially whencompleting the work is sofulfilling. Dineen’s favoritesite is Bejane.com. On thismade-for-women site, noknowledge is assumed, soyou can find everything
you need in one place. Also,some stores offer tutorials.World of Tile has hands-on classes every otherweekend.
3. Hire a designer tohelp create a plan.
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Here are four quick tipsto beautify your kitchenand bath, ultimatelymaking your home asfabulous as you are:
1. Change the lightfixtures.
Most people don’t thinkof this quick and easychange, yet is has to the
potential to make a hugedifference. Many old homeshave Hollywood-style bulbs.Take these out and choose adesign you really love. Youcan find fixtures for as lowas $35 at your local homeimprovement store. TryMcGuckin Hardware in TheVillage Shopping Center onArapahoe Avenue. Choosea reputable brand and gowith the low-end product.According to Dineen, the topof the line is just fluff.
2. Paint your cabinetsand replace the knobs.
In the kitchen, you don’thave to completely replaceyour cabinets for a greatnew look, even if you hatethem. Use liquid sanderand degreaser productsbefore painting, and thenmake sure to use paintmade for cabinets.
Fischer says try acream white for countryor espresso brown fortransitional. Also, manyknobs or pulls are asinexpensive as $2 at localhardware stores. Replaceall of them for a whole newlook.
3. Paint your wall thecolor you love.
Many people are afraidto go for that sky blueor deep magenta, eventhough they really love it.Painting a room a brightcolor will instantly bring itto life. Especially in smallbathrooms, go for drama.Fischer suggest brightred, because accessorizingit is super fun.
4. Buy or createinexpensive art.
A great place to getamazing local (and cheap)art are library exhibits.Check local Web sitesfor upcoming events.In Boulder, also checkexhibits at the DairyCenter for the Arts,where the artists are paiddirectly.
Also, try taking photosout of your favorite travelmagazine and having themframed. Finally, if you’refeeling creative, go for itand make some cool art allon your own.
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W e, at the Women’s Magazine, believe a person’slife is enriched through the knowledge and un-derstanding of different cultures. And, in these
tight economic times, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have tohop on a plane and fly across the world.
Boulder County has long been a beacon for diversity. From
salsa dancing to hookah houses, Boulder enjoys a variety ofcultural influences from all over the world. Therefore, for ourspecial kitchen and bath issue, we decided to profile four localdifferent kitchens influenced by four different continents.
Food is culture. Through cuisine and tradition we learn aboutthe lives of others. Or as Tsehay Hailu from our Ethiopiankitchen puts it, “What brings us together as human beings isfood.”
M arieNicolettisays there
is one word that describesFrench food: beautiful.
In France, food is beauty,and everything revolvesaround it. You gather andbuild relationships aroundit, and you talk about itconstantly. Food creates andteaches culture.
“We spend so muchtime talking about food. It’samazing,” says Nicoletti, aBoulder resident who grew upin France and began cookingat 8 years old. “I think whatmakes food so important isthat it’s everywhere. Thereis the food and there is theaestheticism of food, andthe two are linked. Beautyis really the guide. It’s what
accompanies you through thewhole market.”
In France, there is a saying,“Putting the small dishes inthe big one,” meaning nomatter how small a mealmight be, it always looksas though it took hours toprepare because it is soattractive. French kitchensare traditionally large andenclosed spaces where thefamily gathers to eat daily. Thetable is set beautifully. Thefood is cause for celebration,and this celebration can lasthours.
Sunday lunches typicallylast about four hours.Grandparents, uncles andcousins gather to enjoy amulti-course meal. The mealbegins with an aperitif. Thisbefore-dinner drink is often
cooked wine or champagnethat is regional to the area.Finger food is also served.
The next course is theentree, consisting of meatsuch as beef burgundy, andfresh vegetables. A greensalad made with salt, pepperand French mustard comesnext. Regional cheeses andyogurt also accompany thiscourse. A traditional red tablewine is enjoyed throughoutthe meal.
During the final course,sweet desserts, such as sweetcrepes or lemon pie go witha strong regional liquor, suchas Marc de Savoie, a spiritsimilar to brandy.
This kitchen’s gatheringsare essential to growing up inFrance. Nicoletti says childrenlearn and grow through the
conversations at the table.“As a child, there is a very
good feeling of belongingto the tribe, so to speak,”Nicoletti says. “It brings asense of a united family.”
A beautiful place: French kitchens
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Marie Nicoletti at herhome in Boulder.
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E veryone in Peruthinks they havethe secret to
cooking the best Peruvianfood, says Nancy Bocanegra.Each cook has an exclusivetouch that makes her ají degallina, or Peruvian chicken
stew with chili sauce, the bestaround.
Bocanegra, who movedwith her family to Bouldereight years ago from Peru,says cooking in her kitchen islike being the director of anorchestra. People constantlyenter the kitchen giving theiropinion without solicitation.
“Everybody wants a hand init,” says Bocanegra. “They say,‘Put this in. Put that in. Addmore of this.’
Bocanegra says thereare two main decisions tomake when waking up in themorning in Peru: What amI going to wear today? Andwhat am I going to eat today?
“It’s like a family meeting.We decide on what dish,” shesaid.
The kitchen is closed offfrom all other areas. It’s like amysterious workshop wheredozens of ingredients arecarefully prepared. Cookingis like an art that takes a longtime, says Bocanegra. It isan inspiration that is passedthrough generations.
“If you don’t know how tocook, you don’t know how toteach,” she says.
Peruvian food is acombination of African,indigenous, coastal, Italianand Chinese influences. Atypical dinner is served in
three parts. The appetizer,or entrado, can be whiteregional cheese to chupe decamarones (Peruvian shrimpchowder). Next, the main dishis often a chicken or meatstew, possibly served withceviche. That’s Bocanegra’sfavorite. Finally, local fruitssuch as fresh mangos, arepopular for desert, as well asrice pudding or masameramorado, which is purple flaun.
The adults drink Peruvianwine, while kids drink IncaKola, a widely popular yellowsoda that tastes kind of likebubblegum.
According to Bocanegra, inPeru, “To eat is a party.”
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E thiopians are intimate and inviting people, theeffects of which are easily observed in theirkitchen and cuisine culture. For example, as a
sign of affection, adults normally feed each other at least twiceevery meal.
“There is nothing they won’t share,” says Tsehay Hailu,an Ethiopian native who now owns and operates Ras KassasEthiopian restaurant, 2111 30th St., in Boulder. “To feedsomeone is to love them. It is just a communication of theirpassion to you, even if they don’t know you that much.”
Guests are constantly coming and going in Ethiopianhomes, and they always come without calling. Relatives willdrive several hours to knock on your door without warningand hope you are home. If you are home, no guest ever leaveswithout eating.
Ethiopian cuisine is communal. Individual plates areextremely rare. A traditional meal includes injera, anEthiopian flatbread that fills a 24-inch platter. Several spicystews are served on top of the injera in different sections. Thestews are made of spices, vegetables, beef, chicken, lamb orgoat. Ethiopians sit at this one large platter and eat the mealtogether. There are no utensils because the injera is used asa fork. Typical spices in Ethiopian stews include thyme, holybasil, cloves and cardamom. Most Ethiopians are OrthodoxChristians, so they do not eat pork or fish.
Ethiopians use the same recipes that have been passeddown through several generations, without alteration. Also,in many families the children and the adults dine at separatetables because of different status levels. Even at the adult tablethe etiquette is very quiet and polite.
“Your purpose is just to sit down and eat without making toomuch of a fuss or noise,” says Hailu.
Food appreciation in Ethiopia seems almost spiritual. Theidea of pitching old leftovers does not exist. Even the birdseat the unused grains in the kitchen. It is a cycle of foodappreciation.
“The minimum you can do is respect where it came from.Your life is sustained by it,” Hailu says.
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rowing up on afarm in northernIndia, Pari Gillate organic food
grown on her own landsevery day. She drank milkfrom her own cows andenjoyed vegetables grownin her own garden. Twentymembers of her familylived together in her home,meaning cooking every daywas an all-day process.
“Every day there’s a freshmeal,” says Gill. “All day, allmy mom does is cook food.”
In many Indian families,one person works whilethe rest spend their dayssleeping, eating anddrinking chai. Gill’s familydid not gather around thekitchen table to eat their
meals. Her favorite memoryis sitting and eating aroundthe chulha fire. A chulha isa type of homemade claystove that uses wood asfuel to cook the food. Thefamily sits on the balcony oftheir home and enjoys foodstraight from the skillet onthe chulha stove.
Although Indian cuisineand traditions vary greatlyin the 28 Indian states,most Indian meals areserved with roti, a wholewheat bread that is oftentopped with curry orcooked vegetables. Indianpickle is also served withmeals. Pickling in India is a
traditional way of preservingfood using oil, spices andfruits or vegetables. Madeto last an entire year, it isserved to make every mealmore flavorful. Gill’s favoriteis mango pickle.
The meal is also servedwith jalapenos and yogurt.Indians love the sensationof joining spicy and coolflavors. While extremeflavors are typical of Indiancuisine, Gill says Indianfood is not as spicy as it isrumored to be. Gill movedto Boulder after marryingher husband Paul throughan arranged marriage.Their pairing was based
on numerology, advicefrom a palm reader, andastrological charts.
“Our charts totally hit itoff,” says Gill.
The couple now owns andoperates Bombay Bistro, anIndian restaurant on 1800Broadway St. in Boulder.She says she misses India,where “all day is all abouteating.”
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F ields of sagebrush andpinion pine
trees fill the landscapedriving south on highway285 towards Ojo Caliente,N.M.
A few trailers andabandoned gas stationsappear now and again alongwith off-grid earth sheltersand a handful of meanderingcattle. The sky is vast andblue with wisps of cirrusclouds; long and slenderaccumulations of moisturecarried by unseen aircurrents high above. To theeast are the Sangre de CristoMountains where the Taosski resort sits tucked away ina hidden mountain valley.
But mostly, the highdessert valley is open andbaron. The town of OjoCaliente is not much morethan a mercantile store,a fire station and a diner.
Less than a quarter mile offhighway 285 is the entranceto the mineral pools and spa.True to the New Mexicanspirit, it has a blend of NativeAmerican and Spanish
influences with a funkycharm.
The spur-of-the-momenttrip with my husband toNew Mexico included a stopat Mike’s Café in Taos, alocal favorite for breakfast,where we ordered huevosrancheros, hot coffee anda sumptuous sopapilla withhoney. Curious about themineral pools nearby, weheaded west across the RioGrande canyon.
I had heard mixedreviews about Ojo Caliente;people seemed to eitherlove the place or feel reallyuncomfortable there.Regardless, the springs havedrawn travelers for centuriesand legends abound of theirhealing powers. NativeAmericans believed MotherEarth offered the mineralpools as a way to restorethose who lingered in herliquid embrace, and fengshui masters describewater as one of the five key
elements that shape andtransform all life, holdingqualities of descending,peace and stillness.
Given the underlyingstress of the currenteconomic climate that hoverslike a thick fog, relaxing inwarm water held an alluringpromise of rejuvenation. Andso we entered the mineralsprings for a quiet pausein the midst of our hecticlives. We moved from theiron pool, to the soda pool,and then the arsenic/ironpool, each known to alleviatevarious ailments fromstomach problems to muscletension.
We sat under cascadingwater, letting it flow overour heads and onto ourshoulders, floated suspendedand weightless and felt ourfeet being massaged aswe walked across pebbledbottomed pools to stoneledges where we reclined.
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H ere’s a nontraditional way to honor Mother’sDay: the book “Travels in Place: A Journeyinto Memory Loss.”
The memoir, which has been chosen as a finalist for theColorado Humanities 2009 Center for the Book Colorado BookAward, follows Boulder resident Christiane W. Griffin-Wehr’sexperiences as an adult caregiver to her aging mother livingwith dementia. The award winners will be announced at theAspen Summer Words Literary Festival on June 22.
Memoirs can be painful to read,because authors often uncoverdifficult life events that help createa story worth writing, yet forgetto highlight the positive momentsthat kept them going along theway.
But that is not the case in thiswonderful work (and I don’t justsay this because the author’s aBoulderite). The flow of this bookis right on. Griffin-Wehr takesthe reader through her family’shistory, highlighting the crucialpoints with poignancy and humor.Her charm and human-ness make this book feel like a letterfrom a good friend. You laugh and cry with her as she goesthrough difficult stages with her mother.
While the book is primarily a memoir, it can also be anexcellent resource guide for people facing similar challenges.There are thought-provoking questions in the back of thebook, along with journaling space, for adult caregivers toreflect how they are feeling as they read.
An interesting twist on Griffin-Wehr’s story is she admitsto not always having an especially close relationship with hermother. Yet in a time of need, she gives so much of herself toa woman who helped make up her framework, even thoughher mother rarely took the spotlight the way that other familymembers did.
For those of us whose mothers are still alive, this story is agreat reminder to thank our moms and cherish the time thatwe have with them.
Meet Griffin-Wehr 2 p.m. on Mothers Day, May 10, atBarnes and Noble, 2915 Pearl St. in Boulder.
For more info on caring for elderly loved ones, attend theBoulder County Aging Services Caregiving Symposiumnoon-5 p.m., Thursday, May 28, at Calvary Bible Church, 3245Kalmia Ave., in Boulder.
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In this collection of booksreleased every year byHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,each book has a specialgenre and theme. A guestand series editor create aselection of the best workpublished in North Americain that genre during theprevious year. The piecesare short, so if you don’t likeone, you can skip to the next,although they are generallyall amazing. Catch up on all
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M y husbandand I goteach other
a Kindle for Christmas. Weordered it in November butthey were sold out. Luckyfor us, when it finally arrivedthree months later we hadbeen upgraded to the brandnew and improved Kindle 2.
I should explain. Kindle isan electronic book/librarycreated by Amazon. Theoriginal version was aboutthe same size as abook, looked like abook and even feltlike a book. TheKindle 2 is muchtrimmer, has a lotmore storage andwill even read to mein the voice of mychoice, but it stillsort of looks and feels like abook.
In a matter of secondsI can download books,newspapers and magazinesfrom the Amazon Store,where they are only toohappy to charge my account.Electronic books cost halfor less what a hardcovergoes for and I don’t have torecycle anything. It’s verycool and makes readingalmost addictive. But howbad could that be?
The Kindle would be agreat gift for any collegestudent. Our niece, who isa student, pointed out thatall those huge, expensivetextbooks could be had fora fraction of their hardcovercost, and kids wouldn’t getback strain hauling aroundweighty packs.
Of course Amazon createdthe Kindle to make money.It costs about $350 and thebooks run anywhere from
$4 to $25. I could buy a lotof paperbacks for $350. Still,there’s definitely somethingseductive about this slimreader.
Some have suggestedthe Kindle may be theanswer to the death of printnewspapers, a trend I mournas a former editor. I attendedan editors’ convention yearsago where technologytypes demonstrated ahandheld device that was in
essence an electronicnewspaper and lookedvery much likeAmazon’s Kindle. “Thisis the future,” the geeksproclaimed. Well, theygot that part right. Theyjust didn’t get it to themarketplace ahead ofthe Internet or before
information consumers gotused to free content.
Still, there may besynergies between thecontent newspaper reportersproduce and Kindle-styledelivery if only advertiserswill support it. It’s an ideaworth exploring.
In my perfect world, afterAmazon has made a bazillionbucks off of Kindle, thecompany will collaboratewith public librarieseverywhere to make thosetitles available at no chargeto Kindle users. It’s theperfect union of old and newtechnology.
How cool would that be!
— By Colleen ConantConant, the former editor
of the Camera in Boulder,retired after a 35-year careerin newspaper journalism.She’s currently on the staff ofthe Community FoundationServing Boulder County.
W hen my fifth-grade class participatedin a pen pal project with a class in thePhilippines, I received a small black and
white photo of an exotic girl named Ruhammah Regecito.As we exchanged letters for several years, Ruhammahintroduced me to a bigger world and my natural curiositywas engaged.
My first flight was at 21, and by 30 it was commonplacefor me. By 40 I was traveling abroad, and by 50 I’d visitedmore than 60 countries.
From Ruhammah to the friends I now have worldwide,no matter where I am, one thing remains constant: We areall the same. We have the same basic needs. We want thebest for our children and families. We want to be happy. Wewant to be loved.
We are now living in unprecedentedtimes of global connectivity. The Internethas changed our world. A letter that usedto take a month to get across the countryvia Pony Express has been replaced byinstant messaging that spans the worldin seconds. By clicking a few keys, I cansend a message to 8,000 friends throughTwitter or more than 15,000,000 throughLinkedIn in nearly every country in the world. Our onlylimitation in today’s emerging world is now planetary.
Today the average person has access to the equivalent ofthe total knowledge base of an entire country just 30 shortyears ago. By the end of 2010, ninety percent of the world’spopulation will have a mobile phone. It took 38 years for theradio to reach 50,000,000 users; 13 years for television; fouryears for computers; three years for the iPod and only twoyears with Facebook.
Our planet has become one world, where economics,culture, environment, politics and religion connect andaffect us all. We are no longer citizens of the United States,but citizens of the world.
As we’ve embraced the Internet, now is the time toembrace humanity and one another. It is a time to open ourhearts to our oneness, and to celebrate the places where weagree rather than where we disagree.
By connecting to one another, borders and boundariesthat once separated us disappear. Hatred for an unknown ormisunderstood culture dissipates, as friendships from oneperson to another create understanding. Never before hasour ability to reach out and touch someone been so signifi-cant. With that ability comes opportunity. Never before hasit been so easy to have a positive impact on the entire world.
— By Gail Lynne Goodwin ©Goodwin, of Boulder, is the “Ambassador of Inspiration”
for Inspire Me Today (www.inspiremetoday.com). ContactGoodwin at [email protected].
IF I KNEW THEN BE INSPIRED
The old meets the new It’s a small world after all
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LIVING WITH CANCER
It runs in the bloodR emember
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in the ‘80’s after the AIDSepidemic surfaced?
I had to get a bloodtransfusion today and thefrightening thought was“Am I going to be done intime for my Tuesday nightreality show?” (What realityshow? I’ll never tell.)
The point is, it neveroccurred to me during myseven blood transfusionsthat I should be apprehen-sive about whose blood Iwas actually receiving.
Back in the ‘80’s, youwere paid to give blood,so you can imagine howappealing that would be toa drug user. These days,
there are a series of ques-tions, as well as variousscreen tests, to ensuredonated blood is safe. As aresult, I need not fear about
HIV and can concentratemore on conducting myown little blood-screening.
When blood transfusionsbecame part of my monthlyroutine, I started think-ing long and hard aboutwhich friends I would askto donate for me in hopesof receiving a dose of theirpersonality/genes mixedin with their blood. I have afriend who graduated fromHarvard, a friend who re-sembles Angelina Jolie, anda friend who relentlesslywins at the Blackjack tableI could already feel my IQjumping, my lips plumping,and my wallet doubling asI watched the blood slowlydrip into my IV. Who knewblood transfusions could be
so exciting?If you ever need a blood
transfusion, don’t fret.Think about what exhilarat-ing new trait you will radi-ate, come morning. It couldbe anything from a killerfashion sense to a suddenjolt of the metabolism.
Now if I could only be-friend Cameron Diaz; whatI wouldn’t give for thoselegs.
— By Deandra TrevinoTrevino, of Boulder, was
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We at Women’s Magazinebelieve the answer to most (ifnot all) problems is perspective.That’s why we thought it wasimportant to dedicate a space inour lives every month to storiesabout blessings in disguise.Share your own experiences [email protected].
M y mother and Iread the letterfrom the editor
in March about fibroid tumorsand decided to write lettersto our own uteruses. Soundsfunny, but a uterus is at thecenter of being a woman, yetsomething we often overlook.So here goes.
Thanks to my uterus:My uterus. Uterus. I sit and
actually think about somethingthat is a part of me and that isinstrumental to things I holddear and cherish, somethingthat I don’t think on or museabout often, something I takefor granted. My uterus treatedlike a spleen, but much, muchmore influential.
This is a piece of me thatgave me two wonderfulchildren, a part of me thatcarried my boys softly, apart that let them nuzzle meand kick me and announcetheir presence from the earlybeginning. This is a part ofme that sickened me, thatnauseated me, that didn’twant change or invasion butaccepted it anyway. A part ofme that weighs only abouttwo pounds. A part of methat pushed into my stomachto cradle and comfort theinvaders. In utero. I guess Ishould say thank you, and thinkon you and recognize the giftof life I have, the gift I’ve given,the gift my uterus has given.Treat you less like a spleen.
That’s the obvious part.Thanks for the kids.
After really thinking
about it, I realize this is apart of me I use daily, a partof me sexually, emotionally,not just blatantly physically.Uterus, you are connectedto my bladder, connectedto my cervix, connected tomy vagina, my arteries, myveins, my ligaments. You areconnected to my bloodstream,the bloodstream responsiblefor, ahem, orgasm, deep uterineorgasm. It is a real thing,uterine orgasm, thanks to theuterus.
You have really rounded meout. The pregnancies roundedme out, not so much physically(at least not anymore), butculturally, and mentally, anddefinitely helped me realizewhat I am here for. Not just mebut my children, my boys.
Maybe I should think on myspleen a little more, maybe I’dfind out things my spleen cando besides being the brunt ofthis letter.
Still, today is my uterus’s day.— Laura Dinkey, 30, of
Loveland
Dear Uterus (or to whom itmay concern, as I haven’t a cluewhere my uterus has gone):
I haven’t really thought ofyou in a long time, but since2009 is the 20th anniversaryof your demise, I thought thiswould be as good of a timeas any to find some sort of“closure” in our separation. Inever really have felt guilty innot writing to you earlier, as I’vealways lived by the motto “outof sight, out of mind.” I supposeI should be grateful for the timewe spent together, but I did not
mourn your passing.I remember exactly the
day I became aware of yourpresence. My mother quicklylooked at my dress (theaverage 12-year-old girl woredresses in those days), putme in the bathroom and triedto explain to me just why youhad decided to bleed all overmy clothes. “Wow!” I thought.I was actually a real, livegrown woman now, with all theequipment to make babies! Iwas also so very excited that Iactually had something my sixbrothers would never possess.
Little did I realize, you wouldbe my constant companionfor the next 37 years. And thatevery month, usually righton schedule, there you werereminding me of this event. Astime went by, you and I actuallybecame quite close friends, butI mostly tended to ignore youfor 28 days at a time, give ortake a few days.
You became a part of mylife that was tolerated out ofnecessity and since all I everwanted out of this life was afamily, I grew to appreciate whyyour were gifted to me, andwhat your purpose would be.
Marriage brought a wholenew reason for your existence.I never told you this before,but I really do appreciate yourassistance in bringing my fivebabies into this world. It wasfun watching my womb growwith each pregnancy. I couldgrow a fat belly and enjoy it.Pregnancy was a joy. Thankyou also for making all thosedeliveries so easy. Thank youfor being the best incubatora girl could ask for. We alsoshared four times when thoseeggs just were not meant formaturity and we cried togetherover those miscarriages. Thosewere very bad times for bothof us.
As time passed and thosebabies grew into their own
stages of puberty, you werebeginning to show signs ofmaturing faster than I was. Itseemed like as the pages onthe calendar turned, you werebusy building extra cells andincreased menorrhagia, whichwas very annoying, to say theleast. ... Since my ob-gyn washaving a slow season, and hewas full of scary diagnoses, wedecided that you had to go onto the uterine graveyard in thesky, or wherever it is.
I’m sorry to admit that I didnot miss you, even after all youhad done for me and my family.Having instant menopausewas not bad. I think the blamefor that belongs to my busyfamily at the time. Who hadtime for hot flashes? If it’s anyconsolation to you, I do havea very long scar on the lowerabdomen since the doctor alsotook out everything remotelyattached to you. But my bikinidays were also over, so noproblem there. ...
Now, 20 years later, mybiggest regret I have for thistotal abdominal hysterectomyis the total flabby belly I’m stillleft with. I’m blaming that onyou, dear uterus. You musthave known all that adiposetissue had to go somewhereafter having all those babies.Yuck, but no regrets otherwise.This I can live with. Whoknows where I would be if youhad decided to stick aroundcausing me more trouble? Ofcourse, perhaps more calendarturning, sedentary living, andcalorie intake might also havehad something to do with thegravity pull.
In closing, thank you forbeing the best womb a momcould ask for and for all thetime we spent together. AsErma Bombeck said, “If youcan’t make it better, you canlaugh at it.”
— Marilyn Lowe, 69, ofLoveland
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A ngela “LaLa”Lucero, anindependent
burlesque dancer whoperforms across the FrontRange, was 11 years old whenshe saw her first Vargas pictureand fell in love with the ‘50s.
“My mom and baby sisterwould dance around to‘Grease Lightning’ in theliving room,” she remembers.
It was years later in 2007when Lucero, who had neverdone burlesque but still lovedthe era, formed her firstburlesque group, Chiks onthe Hill.
“We didn’t know what wewere doing,” Lucero says.“But we had the rockabillyfever and the pin-up love,so we did an interpretationof what we thought wasburlesque.”
Lucero has a strict policy ofcreating all original routinesand making all of her owncostumes. She says she isoften inspired by music in herown collection.
“I have a skit to DollyParton’s ‘Working Girl.’ I startout in my bra and panties andget ready for work. I take therollers out of my hair andactually get dressed instead oftaking my clothes off,” Lucerosays.
Lucero, 29, takes her artseriously — she says eachroutine takes her more thantwo weeks of work. Sheworks her day job and spendsthe evening hours findingcostume accessories at HobbyLobby, sorting through songsfor ideas, and recording herroutines in her living room.
Lucero’s day job is doingthe bookkeeping for RubiconHair Studio on 2116 PearlSt., in Boulder, where hercoworkers are, as she says,“150 percent supportive.” Herboss even does her hair for
every show.After we talked with Lucero
about her love for burlesque,we asked her the fivequestions we ask of all of ourfavorite Front Range artists:
What is your ultimate
dealbreaker?LaLa: Racism. If I see any
type of racism, we’re done atthat point.
What song would yoube embarrassed about if
people knew you had it onyour iPod?
LaLa: Any of my REOSpeedwagon. I, sadly enough,know every song.
What’s your life’s motto?LaLa: I don’t hold back on
anything I want to follow. Isurvived a brain injury and acoma in 2005 because of a 45foot fall from an apartmentbuilding in Aurora, and I hadto do a full recovery to learnto walk and talk again. Theaccident is, in fact, the reasonI got into the modeling andburlesque. Since I was given asecond chance at life I decidedto follow all my dreams. Theday I was released I toldmyself I would never holdback on anything I want to do.Life is too short.
What’s your daily beautyroutine?
LaLa: I’m a compulsiveplucker. I pluck my eyebrowsthree to four times a day. I’mso obsessive — I see one hairand I’m crazy. I have close to40 pairs of tweezers.
If you could have dinnerwith a famous artist, deador alive, who would it be,and what would you talkabout?
LaLa: John Lennon. I’m ahuge Beatles fan. I would loveto talk to John about currentday issues. His generation wasso completely different thanmy generation. His aspects oflife were so positive. I wouldlove to have a political andreligious discussion — I knowI would lose terribly, and Iwould love the loss.
— By Jennie DorrisKnow a local female artist or
entertainer we should feature?E-mail [email protected].
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