There’s a story I like to tell (and told two years ago for an article in our Southwest Life section):
My now husband and I had been dating only about a month when he brought me to Durango the first time. We were living in Albuquerque then, both working for the newspaper. A Fort Lewis College grad, he was anxious to share the place he’d so loved as a student.
It was fall and, driving through the valley north of town, I soaked up the glory of the changing aspen, the verdant valley floor and the soaring peaks beyond. I thought back to my own college experience, at a small liberal arts college in north Texas. When the wind blew just right, the pungent smell of the margarine factory outside of town would nearly take your breath away.
“Instead I could have been here for four years? What was I thinking?” I exclaimed.
It took six years, two stints abroad, and a baby before we decided in 2007 to make Durango our home. Both my husband and I work for the Herald (me as a reporter, him as multi-media editor). In September 2008, our second, Rex, joined brother, Leo. Now, with two kids and two years in Durango, we’re feeling happily and deeply rooted here (funny, we’re getting a lot more visits from relatives than we did in Mexico City). My hope is that this blog will serve as a useful resource to the community that, by virtue of existing, gives us so much.
So here it is: our place to fraternize, collude, network and vent — a one-stop shop for local kid-friendly events, resources, parenting issues, recipe swapping, deals, how-tos and much more. Parents of children of all ages are welcome. Just as in Durango we found our place in the world, let this blog be our place in cyberspace.