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Cover story

27 It’s a small
world. Travel with
Women’s Magazine
advisory group reporter Paula Pant
Francie Anhut,
Impact on Education
to Nepal and see
Janet Beardsley, how Boulder County
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Jan Berg,
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Commerce
Heather Drake, 1 million low-income
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Ilene Dubey,
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Benita A. Duran, Getting global
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Jennifer Kerr,
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10 Reach across the globe without getting out of your seat.
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Beth Krodel, 44 Tips on how to make the world your own inspiration.
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 I ’ve only had one
nickname in my
life: May. That’s
how much I love this month.
W
ith the onset of May, we’ve been talking a lot
about 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 for
The smell of lilacs, the long-distance telephone calls. It ranks second to Christmas for
comfortable warmth before consumer spending, and it’s in the Top 3 for greeting cards. It
the summer’s sweatiness and, accounts for one-fourth of our holiday floral purchases.
oh by the way, my birthday. So yeah, it’s pretty huge.
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I made my mother a mother
on Mother’s Day 30 years ago
this month.
My poor mom. I don’t want
to count how many Mother’s
Days she not just shared with
me, but outright gave to me.
We’d try to do Mother’s Day
in the morning, birthday in
the afternoon. But my mom was too selfless and stubborn
quickly opening her cards and then pulling out my cake. She
couldn’t take even a minute from me. And this, after my birth
was nearly one month late. Like I said, poor mom.
May after May, she gave me her Mother’s Days. Shared her
flowers with me. Made me tea and gave me gifts on the day
that I had subsequently given her and taken from her. She
never complained.
Then, last summer, my mom and I were visiting a refugee
camp in Uganda, volunteering with the nonprofit she founded,
Think Humanity (www.thinkhumanity.org). Suddenly,
everyone around us burst into song. Hundreds of African
orphans surrounded my mother, singing a song they had
written about her. My mother, “Mama Africa.” Their nickname
for 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 our
cover story about a local group’s volunteer work in Nepal. If
the economy has you Boulder-stuck, read about multicultural
kitchens on page 37.
But unlike say, Christmas, which has more or less had
at least a technical definition for centuries, what we honor
on Mother’s Day is infinitely variable. It depends on our
relationships with our mothers — the tireless stay-at-home
caretakers, family chauffeurs and homemakers certainly
deserve that coveted restaurant reservation above all others,
but those of us who have lovingly outsourced a lot of that
work still really, really appreciate it.
If your mother was a march-on-Washington activist, you
may honor this occasion with some activism of your own. If
she was a real nester, never happier than when surrounded by
family, 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 our
mothers’ daughters — even if our mothers have long since
passed — but we’re forming the new traditions of our own
personal Mother’s Day as well. Two parties in one: What’s not
to like about that?
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Last month we asked
you what journey
you’ve taken that
completely changed
your life or changed your
perspective.
Here are your responses.
The journey I took from
New York to Colorado was
filled with changes I never
thought would happen. One
day you are going fast, getting
things done and valuing your
smarts. I proudly left people in
the dust if they “couldn’t make
it.” After several months in
Colorado I realized there was a
type of kindness I was not used
to. Courtesy still had value and
patience was not only a virtue,
but a necessity for a healthy
lifestyle. I truly believe it is
because the greatest vision we
have here is not manmade. The
mountains remind me every
day that I am small and have to
work to be grand.
— Jean Dineen, 49, Boulder
Walking through the ruins
and wondering not only how
Chichen Itza could have been
built, but also why and what
happened to this incredible
site and the Inca civilization left
me with overpowering feelings
of past, present and future.
How such an impressive
civilization could have come
and gone, along with many
other civilizations, made me
understand how important now
is, and also how unimportant
daily annoyances are. I now
look at the big picture, and try
to make each moment count,
even if the moment is nothing
more than popcorn at a movie.
Yes, it’s important to make
the best of every situation,
and try to improve the world,
because effort counts and what
we make of our current world
(and how we leave it) counts.
8 May 18, 2009
Sandy Seliga in Rome, Italy
And I truly believe everyone
can make a difference, and
should try. Sandy Seliga, 58,
Westminster
This past spring break,
I joined the student-run
organization known as the
HOLA Foundation on a
medical-relief trip to Nicaragua
for 11 days.
I started the trip with the
commitment to leave all of my
judgments and apprehensions
at home; my goal was to learn
everything that I could about
this culture, its people and their
beliefs. Most of my time was
spent just simply being with
people; I gained trust through
kindness, which allowed me to
create a space in which I could
ask them the harder questions.
I have learned that in no way
is health care standardized
throughout the world. It’s not
until you explore a culture its
history, its beliefs, its people
that you can treat its illnesses
and create a sustainable form
of health care. My ultimate
goal was to leave Chacraseca
having made a difference.
This trip has opened up new
possibilities in my life and
has inspired me to stand for a
change in our world by having
love of humanity.
— Megan Richard, 23,
Boulder
Following my college
graduation from the University
Women’s Magazine.
of Georgia, I faced a dilemma:
Should I stay in Atlanta and
accept an insurance job offer or
travel to New Zealand for three
months with a work visa?
A senior professor offered
this statement of advice: “You
could be in Atlanta looking
out the window of your office
thinking ‘I could be in New
Zealand’ or you could be in
New Zealand thinking you
could be in an Atlanta office.”
I opted for New Zealand and
ultimately extended my stay to
11 months. The experiences I
had there helped me to grow
as a person exponentially,
cultivating my independence
much more so than if I had
stayed in Atlanta close to my
friends and family. I learned
how to interact with others
who were different from me
and gained the ability to adapt
to change more quickly and
gracefully. My year abroad
helped me to accept who I was
and to be proud of my roots
and more confident in my
choices. It also sparked in me
a keen interest in travel, the
outdoors and writing, which
has significantly diverted my
intended career path.
It also led me to my future
husband!
— Reagen Lowrey, 28,
Boulder
Next month: What has
been the most thrilling
experience of your life?
Share your responses at
speakup@womensmag.com.
Corrections
A photo in April’s Women’s
Magazine with the “Dating
and Other Bad Habits”
column should have had a
photographer’s credit. The
photo was taken by Junichiro
Aoyama.
The BWLG ad for April
2009 contained an error. This
event was held April 8 at 3555
Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. We
apologize for any inconvenience
this may have caused.
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
What’s wrong?
Can someone tell me what
is wrong with asking someone
the question, “What happened
to you?” When you see that
it’s obvious that someone has
been injured, do you look the
other way? Does anyone take
the time to say, “Are you OK?
Is there anything I can do for
you?”
I refuse to believe we have
become such a thoughtless,
uncaring society, all behaving
as bystanders in the world we
live. What we need now more
than ever to care about the
people around us.
I had an opportunity to
watch this behavior in action
this week, running my usual
errands, meeting with people,
even talking to friends. I had
gone in last week for some
“beautification” treatments, and
I came out looking as though I
had been in an awful accident,
or worse beaten up. No one
took the time to say anything
to me. They looked at my face,
and they said, “Have a nice
day,” but no one seemed to
care if I was hurt, or worse in
danger.
My organization,
Courage is Change (www.
courageischange.org), is
dedicated to ending violence
and teaching people how to
build healthy relationships. The
kind of personal disinterest
and emotional distancing that
I experienced last week is the
foundation on which domestic
violence and child abuse is
allowed to thrive. It has to end.
Maybe if we care about one
another more, women and
children in domestic violence
situations would feel like
someone cared. Maybe they
would come to the difficult
realization, “This is not OK,”
and find the strength to get
away.
Please, don’t be afraid to ask.
Your interest and caring may
save someone’s life.
— Liz Oster, of Superior
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Using the Internet for good
Check out www.
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blogs, photo galleries,
new videos and links
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Be our Myspace
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com/womensmag.
In the current economic
state, one of the areas
suffering the most is
nonprofits. Here are some
Web sites that make it easy
to donate to a good cause.
The best part is, you don’t
even have to leave the
house. So log on to these
Cheers to these
local women
Elena Smirnova, of
Boulder, is a winner of
the Bradshaw and Buono
International Piano
Competition and had her
second performance at
the ABC Gala Concert in
Carnegie Hall, New York,
March 30.
Smirnova is a graduate
degree candidate studying in
New York City at Manhattan
School of Music with
renowned pedagogue and
concert pianist James Tocco.
Carolyn French, a victim
specialist on the Boulder
District Attorney’s staff,
won the national Social
Worker of the Year Award
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sites and help make the
world a better place.
www.freerice.com
This site offers a fun
of the National Association
of Social Workers. French
has worked as a victim
advocate in the District
Attorney’s Office during
three administrations.
She is currently serving
as the clinical supervisor
for Master of Social Work
students who are interning
with the District Attorney’s
Office.
The following women
received the St. Vrain Valley
Women of Distinction award:
Corrine Ahlberg has
been the owner and funeral
director of Ahlberg Funeral
Chapel in Longmont since
1947, helping countless
families work through the
grief and loss of losing a
loved one.
Martha Allison has
been an active Girl Scout
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vocabulary quiz that fills
bellies for each correct
answer. For each synonym
you get correct, the site
donates 10 grains of rice.
Not a linguist? Switch to
chemistry, math or art and
keep racking up the grains.
I guess the saying goes,
“Teach a (wo)man how to
do chemistry, and the world
eats for days.”
www.experience-
educate.org
The mission statement of
this charity is “to educate
and empower the next
generation of socially
responsible leaders in
volunteer since the early
’80s. She has acted as a
Stephen Minister with First
United Methodist Church
in Longmont, served
as a mentor at Spangler
Elementary School for Kids
Hope USA and participated
in international mission
team work. Allison is
currently a member of the
Girl Scouts of Colorado
Membership Connection
Committee, a group of
volunteers working to
guide the direction of the
organization, and acts as the
historical collection manager
for the northern region of
the state.
Susan Jennings is the
golf shop manager at Fox
Hill Country Club and has
coached the St. Vrain Valley
school district women’s golf
team since its inception in
Africa.” Eric Glustrom, a
Boulder local, founded the
company after he visited
the Kyangwali Refugee
Settlement in Uganda.
The site provides
information about the needs,
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Connie Lehman owns
and operates K-Theatres
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director of community
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Times-Call. She belongs
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terms as president of her
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of the original members of
the “Heart of Longmont”
merchants association to
redevelop the downtown
shopping district and has
served on the board for
the Longmont Theatre
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CLOSE UP

Part mom, part superhero,

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Know an inspirational
greatest achievement?
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in Close Up? E-mail us at
not the plan.
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out of her self-described
volcano, again. I would love
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to see my face on the back
Although this Coal Creek
of a hard-cover novel I’ve
Canyon woman loved
written. And the third thing
being immature with her
on my bucket list is to see
two daughters, Sylvie and
my children’s children.
Bella, running around her
6. If you could
mountain home with no
Betsy Abbott plays with her daughters sylvie (left) and Bella, (right). eliminate one thing you
pants on and fairy wings, she
do in the bathroom every
was ready to do something
and says she will ship to day, what would it be?
more with her life. Abbott is a member of
anyone in the world who Blowing my nose. That
As Abbott tried to figure “Mompreneurs Advisory
wants a copy. The magazine happens way too often.
out what she would do next, Board.”
is a combination of the silly, 7. Did you have a
she watched her favorite The group members
serious and geeky. nickname growing up?
show “Supernatural” on are all mothers and
She started the company Besty Wetsy. And they
the CW network and began small business owners
with $144. Abbott glued would call me Boobsy,
playing on the Internet. in Boulder Country
white printer paper to the because I developed early.
She discovered Web who provide advice and
pages of “Smart Cookie” 8. What is a turning
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“I didn’t know what else do this magazine. That’s a
she thought to herself, com.
to do,” Abbott says. “Maybe smile and cry one.
“Someone should just make
the next issue I’ll lay out on a 9. What would you do if
a magazine with this great
computer.” because she wanted to. you could be invisible for
art.” And that’s what she did.
The process, which she So we asked her nine a day?
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describes as getting an MBA questions about life, love and I would probably
than a history working in
and psychotherapy at the superheroes. sneak into a back stage
newspapers and a book
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in the past. Remember your career concerns in
past years: How can you maximize your potential? Network
with the people who will help you advance? Become
indispensable to your boss, to your clients?
Now, just having a workplace obligation to get up for in
the morning may seem like enough.
But don’t make that mistake: Now is the perfect time
to put yourself in a prime position for the future. If the
economy does have a negative impact on your career
or business, networking now can help you survive the
downturn. And when the economy inevitably recovers,
wouldn’t it be great if you came out ahead of where you
were before? (Your stock portfolio notwithstanding.)
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WOMEN ACTING UP
Colleen Cannon
fights for a cure
T
o many
women,
the idea of
participating in a triathlon is
downright scary.
Colleen Cannon,
spokeswoman for Tri for
the Cure and a former
professional triathlete,
is here to tell you that it
doesn’t have to be.
In its fifth year, Tri for
the Cure has raised about a
half a million dollars for the
Denver affiliate of the Susan
G. Komen for the Cure
Foundation. On Sunday,
Aug. 2, about 3,000 women
will come together to raise
money for the fight against
breast cancer.
Because Tri for the Cure
isn’t a hardcore triathlon,
it’s a great way for novices
to get their feet wet. But
there is still room for the
seasoned triathlete to feel
challenged.
Cannon, of Nederland,
who spent 14 years
competing professionally
as a triathlete, has been the
spokeswoman for the event
since its inception.
Starting in early spring,
Tri for the Cure hosts
many free or inexpensive
talks, training sessions and
clinics. They’re optional, but
Cannon says attending can
help alleviate anxiety.
“We really try to help
them get off on the right
foot,” Cannon says. “They’ve
thought of everything
that would make a woman
scared, and they’ve fixed it.”
Race day is a continuation
of that support, not just by
14 May 18, 2009
the Tri for the Cure staff
and volunteers, but also
by the racers. Participants
can sign-up as individuals
for $85 or in teams of two
to three for $150. Use the
buddy system and compete
with a friend, or do relays
with a team.
Participants can also
solicit pledges. Those who
raise the most can race in
“If you can do that
first step, it’s taking
that first step towards
hope. We’re helping
(cancer) survivors, but
we’re all survivors in
some way. The best
way to show you’re
Photo by Jonathan Castner
a survivor is to move
your body.”
— Colleen Cannon
the survivor’s wave with
the participants who have Colleen Cannon is the founder and director of Women’s Quest.
beaten breast cancer,
according to Cannon.
“You talk about loving Just for you
life,” Cannon says. “When On training — Check out the Fit and Female story
you have a new lease on on page 16 for specific early race training tips.
life, you’re excited. This is On cancer — Read Deandra Trevino’s column
where it gets real.” about life with cancer on page 45.
Participants should On health and women — Cannon also started
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to eight weeks out. Cannon providing retreats for women that help to restore,
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FIT AND FEMALE
Training for the early racing season
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pring is here and
the nice weather
and fresh racing
calendar gives you a chance
to set new goals and train
smarter and faster this year.
While the flowers and trees
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into the athlete you’ve
always wanted to be.
Here are a few do’s and
don’ts when kicking off
early season training.
Do start off slowly with
endurance (base training),
and delay interval training.
Train 50 to 70 percent
of your maximum heart
rate for four to eight weeks
before you start pushing the
intervals. You want to work
your slow twitch muscle
fibers and improve your
body’s efficiency as using fat
as its primary fuel source.
Don’t think you can start
off where you left off.
“But I was running half-
marathons and marathons
last season!” Again, start off
slowly. Run shorter distanc-
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muscles look good.
13 — Percent
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8 — Percent want to
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Breaking 40 minutes in
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be in the cards, but it is defi-
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year to year may by setting
a race goal, sticking to it by
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Don’t give up.
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DATING AND OTHER BAD HABITS
Facing the truth
“Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you
mad.”
— Aldous Huxley
H
ere is the
truth: I’m
not ready to
write/talk/feel the truth.
I know what it is, but I
don’t know that I’m ready to
do anything about it. I once
believed that knowledge
was power. Now I realize it
can be just as confusing to
know all the answers. I know
where love and I stand and
truthfully, it pisses me off.
I am afraid. I have the
words “Live Fearlessly”
tattooed on my hip. It’s not
because I can’t face my life.
It’s because I want to make
sure I’ve checked myself
at the end of every day. Yet
for someone who takes so
much pride in all this living
fearlessly business, I must
admit I’m scared.
I am afraid of being “too”
much: too interesting (as if
there were such a thing); too
weird; too many battle scars.
But at the same time, in this
simple dichotomy, I want
to do more growing before
meeting my someone. I
mean have some adventures,
fight pirates, collect
souvenirs and battle scars,
live a life belonging to me
and then stand before the
Bonnie to my Clyde and say,
“Here I am. This is me. Take
me as I am.” As Audree, my
too-smart-for-her-own-good
office assistant told me,
“Every woman aspires to be
a booty-collecting, mind-
blowing pirate.”
The truth is, I am just as
afraid of falling in love as I
18 May 18, 2009
am that I will never fall in
love again.
I mention this fear (of
happiness? Commitment?
What is so terrifying
exactly?) at dinner. AC, my
best friend’s husband, states
poetically, “When you give
your heart, you risk getting
it stomped on, but you do it
anyway.”
I raise an eyebrow before
replying sassily, “Maybe
you do. I think at this point
I’d rather let someone else
do the risking. I’m not there
yet.” And that is the truth.
I mention my fears to EJ
Yoder, my former college
professor at the University
of Colorado and an expert in
international relations and
intercultural communication.
She married after she was
40, has certainly established
a life belonging to her and
has traveled the world
collecting souvenirs and
battle scars. Her house is
covered in photos from
China, Bosnia and summers
on the Jersey shore. I
wonder if at any point she
looked around at her life
and was terrified by the “too
interesting” problem.
“When I met Roberto
[her husband of more than
four years now] I was ready.
I wanted to get married,
Charney
wanted to have a family. I
believed I deserved it and, about love?” match,” he says with a smirk.
furthermore, I wanted it,” I’m half-joking, half- “Two people enter but only
this woman I admire tells me serious, as always. We’ve one leaves.”
with a tone of understanding. been seeing each other a Smart ass. Except that for
How long will it take me to little more than a month, and now, anyway, I completely
decide I’m finally ready to rip I think we’re both the kind agree.
off the commitment Band- of people who are terrified — Leah M. Charney
Aid and have another honest about these kinds of things. Contact Charney
to God serious relationship? But that’s why it works, for at LMCharney@
I ask the guy I’m currently now. gmail.com and www.
seeing: “What is the truth “Love is like a cage datingandotherbadhabits.com.
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 IN A FAMILY WAY
A Mother’s Day message
Editor’s note: A version
of this column ran on
Mother’s Day in the Camera
newspaper in 2006.
T
o honor this
Mother’s
Day, I want
to address the woman who
gave me life.
I know you’ve never heard
from me on Mother’s Day
before. Sorry about that. It
took becoming a mother for
me to appreciate you, which
is why it’s taken me so long.
That’s not to say I haven’t
thought about you. I did!
Throughout the years, I’ve
thought occasionally about
the things you’ve given
me: my eyes, my hair, my
freckles.
It wasn’t until the birth of
my own children that I came
to fully realize what you’ve
really given me.
My family, my whole life.
See, my parents — that
nice infertile couple you
didn’t know, whom you
gave me to when I was born
Photo by Jonathan Castner
— were at the hospital the
night my first daughter was
born. And when the baby
stopped wailing from the
shock of being born, all of
us — my mother, my father,
my husband and I — looked
at each other and started to
laugh and cry.
It’s because we’re a family.
And that’s because of you.
I worry about you
sometimes.
We live in a tell-Oprah-
your-innermost-pain kind
of world. Most stories that
you hear from adoptees are
pretty grim. They want to
know the private, intimate
details of why their biological
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parents gave them up; the battles with the unwieldy
that question fuels a void postpartum body — didn’t
that cannot be filled; their feel worth it to you.
miseries in life go back I wish I could somehow
to that woman’s choice, help you feel deep in your
decades ago. heart that it was worth it.
I want you to know — you, You created something so
personally, who made this strong and natural, a family,
tough choice — that I can’t by making the choice that
relate to that. you did.
No void. No pain. No I have so much to be
questions. thankful for, with my list
When I was hunched over growing each year. Right
the toilet for the better part now it seems that the best
of nine months, I wondered thing that has happened
how much of that was to my life is comprised in
genetic. I prayed that your the bodies of two growing
pregnancy was less barfy girls — one with boundless
than my own; I hoped that I creative energy and a
was a nice, calm little fetus contagious, deep-belly laugh,
who didn’t kick you in the the other with a mellow
ribs at 4 a.m. curiosity and a smile so big it
A good friend — the kind scrunches up her entire face.
that holds your hair back But I wouldn’t have my
when you’re throwing — up daughters, at least not this
told me that it would all be particular pair, if I didn’t have
worth it, once I was able to my husband.
hold that precious little baby Of course, my parents
in my arms, day after day. footed the bill for the
I feel a little guilty about college where my husband
that, knowing you didn’t get and I met. Much more
that kind of payoff from me. importantly, they raised me
Maybe all that trouble — the to have the kind of spirit that
sickness of pregnancy and led to my current status as
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happy wife and mother.
But they wouldn’t have
had me at all without you,
the woman who gave me life
and then made the difficult
decision to give me away.
You created a family by
not starting one of your own,
at least not then, at least not
with me.
So the best thing that
happened to me so far in my
life — the very best thing —
is you.
So on the cusp of this
year’s Mother’s Day, I
wanted to say thanks to the
parents who chose to place
their children with adoptive
families. Thanks for your
unbelievable, staggering
selflessness. You have
brought much joy into this
world.
A special thanks to my
own biological mom, who I’d
like to think is reading this
right now. Happy Mother’s
Day, from one mother to
another.
I love you, for the choice
that you made.
— By Erika Stutzman,
erika@womensmag.com
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MEN WE LOVE
What every woman needs
to know about Lee Shainis
Know someone we should
feature in Men We Love?
We’re talking the total pack-
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servant’s heart. Yes, believe
it or not, there are plenty
of good guys out there who
are multi-dimensional, and
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to recognize them. E-mail
nominations to speakup@
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L
ee Shainis
started early.
He first began
volunteering at homeless
shelters in high school. At
the University of Michigan,
Shainis volunteered in the
prison system and with
people with disabilities.
He decided to pursue a
career with a nonprofit when
he graduated. En route to
Oregon from Michigan in
1999 to seek such a job,
Shainis found himself in
Boulder. He has been here
ever since.
In 2000, Shainis and his
friend, Shawn Camden,
started Intercambio de
Comunidades, a nonprofit to
“build respectful communi-
ties and increase opportuni-
ties for immigrants through
language education, cultural
exchange and friendship.”
Intercambio has since
served 4,000 students of all
ages from about 50 coun-
tries, and with the help of
2,000 volunteers.
Recently Shainis, 31, pub-
lished a guide called “What
Every Immigrant Needs to
Know,” which contains 170
essentials for American life
— info about laws, health,
politics, finances and more.
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“I’m pretty passionate
about that because it usually
takes years for people to
learn this stuff, and often
times people get in trouble
before they learn,” says
Shainis.
We wanted to know more
about Shainis and his heart
of gold, so we asked him five
questions, plus one because
he’s so fun. Then we posed
the same questions to his
mother, Susan Freiman, of
Potomac, Md.
Oh, and Lee? You might
want to watch your back
— your mom has a bit of
an issue with one of your
answers.
If you could have one
super power, what would
it be and why?
Lee: The ability to influ-
ence policymakers whenever
and however I wanted. I
don’t want to get into poli-
tics, but I would like to have
heavy influence on issues I
feel strongly about.
Susan: I think he would
make everyone see things
positively. Lee really dislikes
negativity and thinks there
are just too many people
who see the glass half empty
and complain instead of
doing something to make
things better.
What is one thing about
you we would never
guess?
Lee: People say I look bet-
ter when I wear dresses.
Susan: He was kind of
quiet when he was a little kid
When you were young-
er, what did you want to
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Lee Shainis
be when you grew up and
why?
Lee: I wanted to be a doc-
tor because I knew that doc-
tors help people. Then I took
organic chemistry in college
and decided I didn’t want to
be a doctor that badly.
Susan: Lee wanted to be
Superman because he loved
that little red cape and wore
it everywhere.
If you were to live in
another country, where
would you live and why?
Lee: Mexico maybe. I
have some wonderful friends
from there, there are many
different regions and cul-
tures, I speak the language
and the slang, and it’s not too
far from the U.S. so I could
come back and visit my fam-
ily and friends often.
Susan: A country in
South America, probably
Peru. It has a diverse popula-
tion, a great culture and he
has a lot of friends in Peru
that he made through his
participation with Doctors
Without Borders.
What is your favorite
travel destination?
Lee: Iquitos, Peru. For the
Photo by Jonathan Castner
past three years, I’ve gone
there and done some cool
volunteer work at a non-
governmental organization
for street kids, translating
for doctors on a medical
mission, and doing health
education clown shows with
Shawn Camden at schools in
small villages.
Susan: Potomac, Md. It
really isn’t but I think he will
say that since that is where
I live and he knows I will kill
him if he doesn’t say that.
What is the most impor-
tant lesson your mother
ever taught you?
Lee: To respect my
mother. And she showed me
how important it is to give
and receive love. I got lucky
in the mom category. (Good
recovery, Lee.)
Susan: To always dress
conservatively. Lee always
does the opposite of what I
tell him. Just check him out
on Facebook and you’ll know
what I mean.
On the Web
Learn more about Inter-
cambio — www.intercambio-
web.org
— By Annie Brokaw
May 18, 2009 21
 SIMPLY YOU
Bathroom Organization:
An organized beauty queen
W
omen like
their beauty
products.
And most women are very
visual and think they need
to have everything out or
they won’t remember they
have it. Not true. If I give
you a system that you can
trust, will you please use
it and keep things off your
counter?
Peter Walsh, of Oprah’s
“Clean Up Your Messy
House Tour” and TLC’s
“Clean Sweep,” says that
Photo by Jonathan Castner
once your surfaces are
cluttered, you’re doomed.
It’s discouraging to try to
put on makeup or straighten
your hair when you can’t
rest your well-manicured
pinky on the counter. Your
cabinets and drawers are
essential to keeping your
bathroom organized. Items
should be off the counter
and stored in well organized
and structured drawers and
cabinets.
Product suggestion:
Blow Away Hair Care
Organizer, $9.99, the
Container Store. Keep
your flatiron, blow dryer
and round brushes in
one place. Plus, this
mounts to the inside
of your cabinet, saving
even more space.
Did you know?
A new Container Store
opened April 25 near the
FlatIron Crossing Mall
in Broomfield.
22 May 18, 2009
Liz Canavan in an organized
bathroom.
Here is a tip to let you
create some new order in
your 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, B
and C” spaces will be before
you start. This will help you
know exactly where to store
every item you uncover.
A space: Items used daily.
Bathroom: Keep in your top
drawer.
Toothpaste, daily make-
up and brushes, daily
face cream, cotton swabs,
mouthwash, dental floss,
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hair bands/pins, daily
jewelry and perfume.
(I know you use your
blow dryer daily, too. But
that won’t fit in your top
drawer. See my “product
suggestion” for a way to
effortlessly organize your
large hair care items in a
cabinet.)
Bonus tip: Use a drawer
divider to keep your
toothbrush away from
your hair bands with
unruly strands of hair you
don’t want in your mouth.
Stackable dividers can
maximize space in a deep
drawer.
Eco tip: I reused a Harry
and David Pear Box from a
holiday gift I received. It’s
simply a shallow cardboard
box with cardboard dividers.
So simple and yet genius for
separating my supplies.
B space: Items used
weekly.
Bathroom: Store in your
second drawer.
Face masks, scrubs,
specialty creams, bath salts.
C space: Items used
several times a year.
Bathroom: Store on shelves
or in a closet.
Medicines/first aid, extra
toilet paper, back-stock of
deodorant, toothbrushes/
paste, razors, guest soaps,
pedicure supplies, extra
make-up, sunscreen. I store
these items in a linen closet
in the hallway. The shelves
are labeled so I know what
I’m missing when I’m out.
I know it’s tough being
a woman (or a metro-man)
because we have so many
products. But it’s worth it
to organize your bathroom.
You will save time in your
morning routine and money
by not buying duplicates of
products you already own.
Tiny bathrooms
If you’re an unfortunate
goddess with a super-small
bathroom, I have some
advice for you, too.
Étagère: Fancy name for
the metal shelving that
stands around and above
your toilet. This can be an
excellent place to store
towels or extra baskets of
makeup. Use this wall space
to your advantage.
Under-the-sink storage:
If you have those narrow-
beyond-belief-double-doors
under your sink, you need
some shelving for things
you want to keep handy. I
recommend setting up an
under-the-sink shelving
unit that you can buy at
McGuckins and customize
around your pipes. No joke,
this is the coolest part of
this product. You add planks
to the shelves where you
don’t have pipes. It’s easy
and will instantly double
your space.
— By Liz Canavan
Canavan, of Boulder, is
a professional organizer
with Alchemy of Order and
the marketing director of
the National Association
of Professional Organizers.
Got questions on how to
simplify your life? Contact
her at 303-641-4760, liz@
alchemyoforder.com or www.
alchemyoforder.blogspot.com.
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ECO-DIVA
Find compostable
jeans and flying prairie
dogs at Ellie’s
M
y best friend
recently
offered to
nominate me for the reality
show “What Not to Wear.”
This confused me. The
people who go on that show
need serious fashion help. I
may not be Jackie O, but I’m
not in that category right?
OK, so maybe my day-
to-day style is a little meat
and potatoes. I tend to stick
to multipurpose basics
(read: boring), as my inner
earth mama sees buying
lots of new clothes as an
enviro-violation. The result:
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Madisen Komaru at Ellie’s
Eco-Home Store.
occasions and styles.
For starters, the Seattle-
made Prairie Underground
line makes knits that are
Photo by Jonathan Castner
fashion forward with a
splash of funky. Frilly tops
from Ecoganiks are perfect
for girly-gals. Graphic tees
a hodge-podge thrift store printed by Topo Ranch ($28)
wardrobe and a friend trying will suit those with an ironic
to put me on reality TV. side.
After my BFF’s subtle For meat and potata’s
Arapahoe Ave., Ellie’s is a
kick in the butt, I felt ready dressers like me, Good
convenient one-stop shop
to shop for clothes that Society’s jeans ($98 a pair)
for all your green needs,
haven’t yet been owned by are so natural that they
including clothes.
others. Outfits even. But recommend adding them
Only fair trade certified,
how does one do this and not to your compost pile when
eco-friendly fabrics like
contribute to pesticide-laden they wear out. Hmm. And
organic cotton and recycled
cotton fields and sweat shop as for those endless yoga
polyester are allowed to
labor? coordinates, Blue Canoe has
grace the racks. Throw out
Enter Ellie’s Eco-Home your Sun Salutations covered
any misconceptions that
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only equals endless
child, it would be this store. Nelson is Boulder’s self-
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Shopping Outdoor Divas in five
Every 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 Boulder
County.
Outdoor Divas, a Boulder-based independent gear shop, is one of our favorite
places to get outdoor clothes whatever reason you are heading outside. This shop is
run by and specifically for women.
As it gets hot outside, here’s what hot on the outdoor style front:

Yoga
Prana 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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 Hiking
Mountain 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 sports
Carve Belles beach
rash guard, $46.95.
Patagonia bikini,
$44.
Patgonia Shortie
Boardies, $55.
Teva Mush shoes
(not pictured), $24.95.
Considered one of
the most comfortable
flip-flops around. Like
a memory mattress,
your feet sink into
place.

Photos by
Jonathan Castner

Stylist: Angel Garcia,

www.pinupprettymua.com

Model: Kem Minnick

Lifestyle
Stonewear Twister
dress, $59.95. With a
flattering empire waist
and built-in bra. This
summer dress is perfect
for dinner, running
errands or traveling.
Merrell Genoa
sandals, $49 (not
pictured). Merrell
specializes in women’s
footwear, recognizing
a woman’s foot is
narrower than a man’s
foot. Women’s feet also
have a higher in-step and
arch with proportionally
longer toes and longer
calf muscles.

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Running
SkirtSports Marathon tank, $44.95. Extra length covers
tummies and stays put while running. Skirt Sports is a
Boulder-based company.
SkirtSports GymGirl Ultra, $64.95, skirt with built-in
running shorts. With one pocket on each leg and music port
on the side of the skirt.
Pearl Izumi Peak XC shoes, $114.95. Lightweight trail
shoes.
Outdoor Divas mesh running hat, $19.95.
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PROFILE
More than just
a pretty face
H
ave faith. Practice forgiveness.
And be love.
Those are words this month’s
model, Kem Minnick, lives by. Minnick, who is
proudly a few months shy of 40 years old, has
quite the background.
She was born in West Virginia, studied
modern dance in college, and moved to Texas to
work as a professional equestrian for 10 years.
She began studying yoga in 1997 to enhance her
horseback riding. Soon, yoga led her to Boulder,
where she studied and taught Ashtanga,
including classes to people with developmental
disabilities.
She is currently translating yoga into Spanish
(she’s fluent), and running the high-end
residential landscaping company, The Devic
Gardener (720-435-2430). This company turns
lawns into lavish gardens that are completely
organic, sustainable and chemical-free.
Minnick wants her entire life to be natural.
About 75 percent of her diet is raw. Not only
has this changed her life from the inside out,
making her feel lighter and more energetic, but
it is also good for the environment. Minnick
barely eats anything out of a package although
she confesses, she does occasionally indulge
in a cheeseburger, and Vietnamese pho is her
weakness.
Because of what she puts into her body,
Minnick says she is in better shape today than
she was when she was 25, and she doesn’t have
to exercise as much.
“I have more time for intellectual pursuits, to
be more creative and do volunteer work,” she
says. “I love my body more now. I’m raw and I
practice yoga, and it all helps with emotional and
spiritual and financial stability.”
To learn more about a raw food diet, contact
Boulder chef Brigitte Mars at 303-442-4967 or
www.brigittemars.com.
— By Aimee Heckel
View more photos from this fashion shoot
at www.womensmag.com.
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COVER STORY A mother holds her scan into the light to
look at it more closely. Investigations, such
as scans and x-rays, are a major source
of income for Helping Hands Community
Story by Paula Pant Hospital, a shoestring operation that relies on
donated equipment and volunteer doctors.

K
ATHMANDU,
Nepal In this
six-building,
100-bed hospital
in a busy section
of this city, all the
florescent light bulbs have
been removed to save energy
costs. Latex gloves are used
sparingly, pap smear swabs

Photo by Paula Pant

are sterilized for re-use, and
medical files are stored on
paper.
“I’m thinking of rigging the

It’s a
phones to automatically cut
out after three minutes,” says
executive chairman Gupta
Shrestha, 50. The city’s pro- Boulder nonprofit treats
vider charges by the minute.
For more than a decade, one million patients
in Himalayan country

smallworld
Shrestha has been the head
of Helping Hands Commu-
nity Hospital, a full-service op-
eration started by the people
of Boulder County. Like many
others, he started his Helping
Hands career as a volunteer.
About 32 of the 40 doctors
here, Shrestha says, are
volunteers.
quakes and landslides have
Shrestha keeps an exami-
combined to make Nepal
nation table in his window-
among the poorest and least
less office in a congested
developed countries in the
neighborhood in the capital
world. It holds a 46 percent
of Nepal, a Himalayan nation
unemployment rate.

Photo by Jonathan Castner

poised as the buffer between
A line of patients is
China and India and home to
growing outside Shrestha’s
eight of the world’s 10 tallest
door. The volume of people
mountains, including Mt. Sreejana
with dirty faces and stained
Everest. Shrestha,
clothes multiplies rapidly, and of Boulder,
A decade-long bloody
their mutterings grow louder. co-founder
communist insurgency,
They form, not a line, but a of Helping
culminating in 2006 with the
tight cluster around his door, Hands.
overthrow of the absolute
and they seem to be elbowing
monarch, has destabilized
to stand closest to the entry.
this nation, which is now
Twice in five minutes some-
ruled by a coalition govern-
one raps on his door.
ment led by former Maoist
A gray-haired woman
rebels. The civil strife, com-
hunched over with severe
bined with rampant corrup-
stomach pain enters first
tion, lack of infrastructure
and a tendency toward earth- Continued on page 28

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 Continued from page 27
and lies on the examination
table without prompting. She
couldn’t be taller than 5 feet
standing upright, but doubled
over she seems much
smaller. Deep lines etch her
face. She looks relieved to be
Photo by Jonathan Castner
resting. Shrestha presses her
abdomen and refers her for
testing. She’s out in less than
two minutes.
Next comes Santosh
Thapa, a 24-year-old farmer
whose family scraped togeth-
er the funds for an urgent
flight to Kathmandu after his
urinary tract closed. Thapa
hands the doctor his x-ray.
“See this?” Shrestha says,
pointing to what looks like a
large Easter egg on the x-ray.
“That’s a bladder stone 10
centimeters by 5 centime-
ters.” There are no patient
privacy laws here.
Ninety-nine percent of
stones larger than 6 millime-
ters need medical interven-
tion.
He recommends Thapa
Photo by Paula Pant
Patients wait in the plaza that forms the center of the six-building Helping Hands Community
Hospital complex. Although government hospitals in Nepal are free, their waiting lists run six
months to one year.
28 May 18, 2009
Narayan Shrestha, of
Boulder, co-founder of Helping
Hands.
have an operation, which
costs the equivalent of $100
at his hospital, as opposed to
$300 in Kathmandu’s other
private hospitals.
“Government hospitals are
free,” he says, “but they have
waiting lists from six months
to a year, and this man can’t
wait.”
Two decades ago, Thapa
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might have been stuck on
that waiting list. But thanks
to Boulder’s Helping Hands
Health Education, he can get
affordable care.
Helping Hands was
launched by husband-and-
wife team Narayan and
Sreejana Shrestha, Nepalese-
born entrepreneurs who have
made Boulder their home
since the early 1980s. Shortly
after they settled here,
Narayan led a group of tour-
ists on a trek in the Nepalese
countryside. The team, which
happened to include several
doctors and nurses, stumbled
upon a child who had a stick
protruding through his chin.
The stick had been there
for several weeks and had
become severely infected.
The tourists helped the
child. But everyone on the
trek was disturbed by what
they had seen.
Narayan vowed to bring
a group of medically trained
people to Nepal to set up
a one-week mobile health
clinic. To sustain the opera-
tion, the couple made a work-
sharing agreement: Sreejana
would stay in Boulder, man-
aging their imports store, Old
Tibet, at 948 Pearl St., which
would also double as Helping
Hands’ headquarters. She’d
also raise their three chil-
dren. Narayan would spend
as many as nine months a
year in Nepal.
Seventeen years later,
more than 1,000 doctors
have provided low-cost treat-
ment to more than 1 million
patients. The Kathmandu
hospital is the group’s largest
project and is one of the most
advanced centers in the coun-
try, thanks to donations from
Boulder Community Hospital
and area clinics.
Helping Hands is sustained
by people like Suzie Sch-
neider, a 13-year resident of
Longmont. When Schneider
was 36, she made an abrupt
life change by moving to
Nepal as a Peace Corps
volunteer. For three years,
she made her home in the
west-central Dang district.
There, Schneider wit-
nessed the health effects of a
lack of infrastructure. When
her Nepalese coworkers’ wife
delivered a baby, she traveled
to Kathmandu to do it.
“Having spent three years
in Nepal, though not in a
remote location, I did see
enough of the conditions ...
lack of nearby good water
sources, lack of roads and
transportation networks ... to
know that much is needed,”
Schneider says.
She left Nepal in 1994,
moved to Longmont, and
began to get involved in Boul-
der County’s fledging efforts
to open a medical clinic in
Nepal. At the time, Schneider
says, there were questions
about “whether a group of
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Photo by Paula Pant
Doctors at Helping Hands Community Hospital in Kathmandu
prepare to operate on Deepa, a middle-aged Nepalese villager
whose leg was shattered in a water buffalo attack. Surgeries
at this hospital cost one-third the price of private Kathmandu
hospitals, although anesthesia is extra.
Continued from page 28
folks stateside could have any
influence.”
They squashed that doubt.
Within a decade, Helping
Hands opened seven mobile
health camps in seven vil-
lages and a small Kathmandu
hospital that offered walk-in
primary care.
Today that Kathmandu
hospital has expanded to a
six-building complex that in-
cludes almost every specialty
service you can think of: a
cardiovascular clinic, ob/
gyn specialists, opthamology,
physical therapy, psychiatry,
surgery, internists, dermatol-
ogy, dentistry, and ear, nose
and throat specialists. The
numbers show the impact.
It treats 300 to 500 people
per day, delivers 50 babies a
month, reads 200 to 400 lab
samples each day and is ad-
ministering free tuberculosis
treatment to 146 people.
“We have everything but
neuro(logy),” says Deepak
KC, a Helping Hands’ inter-
national program manager
and Nepalese man. “Hope-
fully we’ll have that in a few
months.”
Santosh Thapa is now
standing in the courtyard
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Back in Boulder
One woman’s story
Sreejana Shrestra
Photo by Jonathan Castner
Men and women don’t Their 23 years of
in the center of the Helping date in Nepal; their families marriage have been spent
Hands complex, staring at arrange for them to marry. largely apart, with Narayan
So Sreejana Maskey had taking five to six trips to
his feet. He has not spoken
only met Narayan face-to- Nepal a year to organize
a word since his arrival. He
face for 20 minutes before Helping Hands affairs
is alone, and he hasn’t made
he asked her to marry him. while she acts as the family
eye contact with anyone.
She refused. She knew breadwinner in Boulder,
He doesn’t look up when
almost nothing about managing their array of
Shrestha strides toward him,
him, expect that he lived small businesses, serving
grabs the x-ray from his hand
in some distant country on the Helping Hands
and hoists it into the daylight
called the United States, board, and raising their
it for two volunteers to exam-
in some unfamiliar city three children.
ine. His face registers noth-
named Boulder. She wasn’t “She used to say that as
ing when Shrestha describes
sure she wanted to spend long as you help the poor,
how the bladder stone forces
her life so far away with a I’ll work hard in Boulder,”
him to lean sideways to
stranger. Narayan says.
urinate.
But he proposed again, He once asked her if she
But Thapa is lucky. He
immediately. And she disliked his long absences;
amassed enough money to
refused again. if she was bothered by the
get to the hospital quickly,
So Narayan got down fact that he’s off in their
and enough beyond that
on one knee. It’s a noble homeland having fun while
to pay for his treatment.
gesture only seen in she’s balancing child-
Wealthy Nepalese earn $100
Hollywood movies. No raising with managing the
a month; others earn that
suitor in Nepal gets down downtown Boulder imports
much per quarter. It seems
on one knee. store.
a team of distant relatives is
Sreejana was tickled by Her reply was, “You love
looking out for Thapa.
his romantic persistence, helping the poor, and I love
and she said yes to his you.”
Helping Hands has now
third proposal. They Now their children are
established more than 125
married in court on Nov. continuing their legacy.
medical camps across the
16, 1986, and she moved Last year their son married
country. Last year it launched
to Boulder with him a few the daughter of Gupta
a 25-bed hospital the Dang
weeks later. Shrestha, the executive
district, the same area
“Ever since her arrival director of Helping Hands
Schneider inhabited for three
in my life I became very Community Hospital.
years.
lucky and happy,” Narayan
The nonprofit receives
says. — By Paula Pant
Continued on page 30
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no grant funding and has no
dependable ongoing donors.
Its expansion is credited to
grassroots efforts from an
enormous cadre of Boulder
County supporters. The core
team includes a Longmont
doctor who sits on the organi-
zation’s board and a Boulder
accountant from Henry,
Waters and Associates.
This local team procures
not just cash. The Boulder
Community Hospital donated
delivery tables, two ventila-
tors, an anesthesia machine
and a baby warmer.
“The baby warmer helps in
keeping (hypothermia) out of
the newborn,” says nursing
director Bharati Sapkota. “In
the cold season, baby can
freeze.”
The walls of this com-
plex, like most buildings in
Kathmandu, are made from
cement and steel rods. The
temperatures rarely dip
below freezing in the winter,
thanks to Nepal’s positioning
at the same latitude as Miami
and Kathmandu’s altitude of
less than 5,000 feet above sea
level. Yet lack of insulation
ensures it’s as cold inside as it
is outside.
Helping Hands relies on
Boulder County to send as
much equipment as it can
muster.
Photo by Paula Pant
A researcher takes a break
from studying pap smear
samples in her microscope.
Almost all of the laboratory
equipment used at Helping
Hands Community Hospital
was donated, secondhand,
from hospitals and clinics in
Colorado.
30 May 18, 2009
“We get equipment from
Boulder like microscopes,
wheelchairs and stretchers,”
says KC. “If we had to buy
those, we couldn’t.”
Each 40-foot cargo crate of
medical supplies holds goods
valued between $400,000 and
one million dollars. Last year,
Boulder’s Rotary Club raised
$12,000 with matching grant
money to cover shipping
costs. Helping Hands added
another $4,000.
These in-kind donations
cover some, but not all,
needs. What can’t be given
must be purchased.
“We spent a lot of money to
buy (electricity) converters,”
Gupta Shrestha says, nodding
to the American plugs that
mismatch Nepalese sockets.
Generators and batteries
are pivotal in powering this
equipment, as Kathmandu
remains in the dark ages: the
city suffers 126 hours a week
without electricity.
Occasionally, Helping
Hands must make a massive
cash outlay for equipment
its donors can’t provide.
Five years ago, the Boulder
headquarters gave Shrestha
$10,000 for an ultrasound
machine.
Some of this money
comes from fees from
women like Tracey Hui, 24,
and Rumina Mirza, 23, both
final-year medical students at
University College in London
who spent six weeks volun-
teering for Helping Hands
last fall. They stumbled upon
the organization online.
Though their fee was mini-
mal $3,500 including airfare,
room and board Helping
Hands uses this net revenue,
plus donations, to equip the
hospital. The volunteers say
this is a great investment in
their education. At Helping
Hands, they’ve confronted
problems unheard of in their
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home countries.
“We see very late-stage
cervical cancer we’d never
see in London because of
screening,” Hui says.
Mirza recalls one woman
who was 31 weeks pregnant
coming for her first checkup.
She refused the ultrasound
because of the cost.
Though women are
underrepresented in Nepal’s
workforce, they constitute a
large percentage of Help-
ing Hands’ leadership. The
female hospital administrator,
Rukmani Karki, 47, keeps an
up-to-the-minute account of
everything transpiring in all
six buildings of the hospital
complex.
And the offices are filled
with top-talent female doctors
like obstretics specialist Shilu
Adhikari, 32, who treats about
20 women a day.
“I see a lot of hemorrhag-
ing,” says Adhikari. “It’s the
most common cause of ma-
ternal death. Most will bleed
for 40 or 60 days and come to
us with anemia.”
While official maternal
death rates are undocument-
ed, infant mortality in Nepal
is high, at 47 deaths per 1,000
births. The United States, by
comparison, has six infant
deaths per 1,000 births.
Powerful working women
like Adhikari are a rarity
in Nepal, in part because
educational opportunities for
women are thin. Many fami-
lies have limited means and
prefer to spend their money
educating their sons. Only
35 percent of Nepalese adult
women are literate, as op-
posed to 63 percent of adult
men, according to the CIA.
Helping Hands is com-
bating this by training
local women to enter the
medical field. In 2002, the
group founded the Helping
Hands Institute of Nursing, a
Kathmandu nursing school
On the Web
Check out www.
womensmag.com for:
• A video filmed in Nepal
about Helping Hands
• A photo gallery
• A column by intuitive
guide, Kimberly Jonas, on
how helping save others
can really save you.
Learn more about
Helping Hands, including
volunteer opportunities,
at www.helpinghands-
usa.org.
predominately attended by
women. It also launched the
SANN Research Institute and
International College and the
Surya Boarding School.
Women hold leadership
roles in these schools.
Karuna KC, 40, serves as
the administrative director of
SANN and, from her first-
floor office, interfaces daily
with many of its students.
Kalpana Shrestha, vice-
principal of Helping Hands In-
stitute of Nursing, says she’s
watching a record number of
graduates find jobs in Austra-
lia, Canada, England and the
United States. She oversees
19 fourth-year students and
15 third-years all women and
she expects 90 percent to
launch careers overseas.
This prospect thrills third-
year nursing student Deepa
Giri, 21. She wants to help
patients in Nepal, she says,
but her knowledge feels
stagnant in a country marred
by persistent strikes, protests
and blackouts.
“I can do better overseas,”
Giri says, in confident Eng-
lish. “And all my friends have
moved to Australia.”
As for why she wants to be
a nurse?
She pauses.
“I don’t know,” she replies.
“Destiny.”
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MARKET TO MOUTH
Recession-proof your meals
C
ooking, like life,
is an experiment
in creativity. And
when you’re on a budget,
grocery shopping and
managing your food for the
week requires unabashed
creativity.
Fortunately, I grew up in
hardscrabble, 1960s rural
Australia with depression-era
parents. As a result, today
when I put into practice my
frugal-foodie skills, I’m very
aware that I’m behaving a lot
like my mum and for once
this is good!
FYI: Eating well is not
synonymous with expensive.
I know because I eat well
and within my means.
If, like me, you have a
grocery budget you need to
adhere to, try these tips:
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1. Write a grocery list.
2. Buy produce in season;
it’s abundant and thus
cheaper.
3. Avoid packaged food.
You pay for packaging. Buy
bulk instead.
4. Stick to your list and
avoid impulse purchases.
5. Never buy more than
you need, and never buy
what you can’t afford.
Once home, manage your
food for the week creatively.
For example, as we move
through spring, you’ll notice
greens, like asparagus and
chard, are abundant and
cheap. Subsequently, I’ve
been making delicious
and easy meals with both
recently. You might like to
try this one:
gardenshoppe
Women’s Magazine.
Savory Bread Pudding
Chop into cubes eight to
10 slices of any stale or rustic
bread you have on hand.
Wash half a bunch of
chard and asparagus,
removing their woody stalks.
Sauté in olive oil with a little
garlic. Optional: Add chunks
of turkey bacon or sausage.
Break four eggs into a
bowl, whisk in 1 cups of
milk. Fold in a half cup of
grated cheese.
Toss bread and veggies
into a baking dish. Season
with salt and pepper and 1
teaspoon of dried sage or
thyme or oregano.
Pour egg batter over bread
and veggies. Gently press
the lot down with back of a
spatula.
Dot the top with halved,
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Photo by Louise Ross
Bread Pudding
grape tomatoes.
Pop into a 350-degree oven
for about 40 minutes.
Serve with a side salad.
— By Louise Ross
Ross, of Boulder, writes
a recession-strategy food
blog, www.markettomouth.
blogspot.com. Here, she shares
tips on grocery shopping
on a budget and cooking
healthy meals with no waste
and no fuss. Contact her at
markettomouth@gmail.com.
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Home& Garden
I ’ve been thinking about how much I enjoy my
garden during the summertime, though it’s
really nothing more than some overgrown
bushes, ground covering, shade trees and potted flowers.
I actually like the wildness of the overgrowth, pushing
past the boundary of the walkway, plants meandering
where they please. Even the vines in my pots expand far
beyond the edges of their containers, reminding me of
summers past when as a child I’d wander through my day
without a schedule or worry, free from the confines of the
schoolroom.
I tend my pots, clipping off dead flowers, watering and
adding a little Miracle Grow to compensate for my modest
gardening skills. The irises and lilacs seem to get along just
fine without any assistance from me, for which I am grateful.
Spring brings the enjoyment of gardens around town with
an array of colorful expressions, and I find myself drawn

Photo by Anne Knorr

to the Pearl Street Mall each year where vibrant tulips line
the walkway. My neighbor has a beautifully manicured rose
garden that she tends to daily, and across the street from
her is an indigenous garden filled with wild grasses, rocks
and flowering bushes. Each seems to express the gardener’s
unique flair for composition of color and texture. Some are
Anne Knorrs’ garden.
structured with neat rows and boarders while others have an
organic quality to them.
Even in nature, gardens appear in abundance during the
spring and summer. The wildflowers along the trails near my
home seem to have no other purpose beyond offering their
delicate 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 like
the unscheduled days of summers past, it refreshes my soul.

— By Anne Knorr, of Boulder

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Draw a warm bath with lavender and rosemary essential
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Here are three herbs especially peaceful for women:
Lavender — For muscular and mental relaxation. Put 10
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Rosemary — For mental clarity and deeper breathing.
Ingest 45 drops of tincture (an alcoholic or glycerin extract)
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HOME AND GARDEN

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ith the
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 2. Paint your cabinets
and replace the knobs.
In the kitchen, you don’t
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your cabinets for a great
new look, even if you hate
BATHROOM them. Use liquid sander
AFTER and degreaser products
before painting, and then
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Fischer says tr y a
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3. Paint your wall the

color you love.
Many people are afraid
to go for that sky blue
or deep magenta, even
though they really love it.
Painting a room a bright
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Fischer suggest bright
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many designers can pass
along discounts for you to
take advantage of.
Here are four quick tips
to beautify your kitchen
and bath, ultimately
making your home as
fabulous as you are:
1. Change the light
fixtures.
Most people don’t think
of this quick and easy
change, yet is has to the
potential to make a huge
difference. Many old homes
have Hollywood-style bulbs.
Take these out and choose a
design you really love. You
can find fixtures for as low
as $35 at your local home
improvement store. Try
McGuckin Hardware in The
Village Shopping Center on
Arapahoe Avenue. Choose
a reputable brand and go
with the low-end product.
According to Dineen, the top
of the line is just fluff.
4. Buy or create
inexpensive art.
A great place to get
amazing local (and cheap)
art are librar y exhibits.
Check local Web sites
for upcoming events.
In Boulder, also check
exhibits at the Dair y
Center for the Arts,
where the artists are paid
directly.
Also, tr y taking photos
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magazine and having them
framed. Finally, if you’re
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 Global kitchens
Story by Jessica Warnock salsa dancing to hookah houses, Boulder enjoys a variety of
Photos by Jonathan Castner cultural influences from all over the world. Therefore, for our
special kitchen and bath issue, we decided to profile four local

W
e, at the Women’s Magazine, believe a person’s
life is enriched through the knowledge and un-
derstanding of different cultures. And, in these
tight economic times, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to
hop on a plane and fly across the world.
Boulder County has long been a beacon for diversity. From
different kitchens influenced by four different continents.
Food is culture. Through cuisine and tradition we learn about
the lives of others. Or as Tsehay Hailu from our Ethiopian
kitchen puts it, “What brings us together as human beings is
food.”

Check out www.

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A beautiful place: French kitchens quick and easy recipes
of French, Peruvian,
Ethiopian and Indian
food.
Photos by Jonathan Castner

Marie Nicoletti at her

home in Boulder.

A Beautiful Place: French kitchens

M
arie
Nicoletti
says there
is one word that describes
French food: beautiful.
In France, food is beauty,
and everything revolves
around it. You gather and
build relationships around
it, and you talk about it
constantly. Food creates and
teaches culture.
“We spend so much
time talking about food. It’s
amazing,” says Nicoletti, a
Boulder resident who grew up
in France and began cooking
at 8 years old. “I think what
makes food so important is
that it’s everywhere. There
is the food and there is the
aestheticism of food, and
the two are linked. Beauty
is really the guide. It’s what
accompanies you through the
whole market.”
In France, there is a saying,
“Putting the small dishes in
the big one,” meaning no
matter how small a meal
might be, it always looks
as though it took hours to
prepare because it is so
attractive. French kitchens
are traditionally large and
enclosed spaces where the
family gathers to eat daily. The
table is set beautifully. The
food is cause for celebration,
and this celebration can last
hours.
Sunday lunches typically
last about four hours.
Grandparents, uncles and
cousins gather to enjoy a
multi-course meal. The meal
begins with an aperitif. This
before-dinner drink is often
cooked wine or champagne
that is regional to the area.
Finger food is also served.
The next course is the
entree, consisting of meat
such as beef burgundy, and
fresh vegetables. A green
salad made with salt, pepper
and French mustard comes
next. Regional cheeses and
yogurt also accompany this
course. A traditional red table
wine is enjoyed throughout
the meal.
During the final course,
sweet desserts, such as sweet
crepes or lemon pie go with
a strong regional liquor, such
as Marc de Savoie, a spirit
similar to brandy.
This kitchen’s gatherings
are essential to growing up in
France. Nicoletti says children
learn and grow through the
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conversations at the table.
“As a child, there is a very
good feeling of belonging
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Nicoletti says. “It brings a
sense of a united family.”
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GLOBAL KITCHENS
A secret place:
Peruvian kitchens
stew with chili sauce, the best
around.
Bocanegra, who moved
with her family to Boulder
eight years ago from Peru,
says cooking in her kitchen is
like being the director of an
orchestra. People constantly
enter the kitchen giving their
opinion without solicitation.
“Everybody wants a hand in
Nancy Bocanegra
it,” says Bocanegra. “They say,
three parts. The appetizer,
or entrado, can be white
“It’s like a family meeting.
regional cheese to chupe de
We decide on what dish,” she
camarones (Peruvian shrimp
said.
chowder). Next, the main dish
The kitchen is closed off
is often a chicken or meat
from all other areas. It’s like a
stew, possibly served with
mysterious workshop where
ceviche. That’s Bocanegra’s
dozens of ingredients are
favorite. Finally, local fruits
carefully prepared. Cooking
such as fresh mangos, are
is like an art that takes a long
popular for desert, as well as
time, says Bocanegra. It is
rice pudding or masamera
an inspiration that is passed
morado, which is purple flaun.
through generations.

E
veryone in Peru
thinks they have
the secret to
cooking the best Peruvian
food, says Nancy Bocanegra.
Each cook has an exclusive
touch that makes her ají de
gallina, or Peruvian chicken
‘Put this in. Put that in. Add
more of this.’
Bocanegra says there
are two main decisions to
make when waking up in the
morning in Peru: What am
I going to wear today? And
what am I going to eat today?
The adults drink Peruvian
“If you don’t know how to
wine, while kids drink Inca
cook, you don’t know how to
Kola, a widely popular yellow
teach,” she says.
soda that tastes kind of like
Peruvian food is a
bubblegum.
combination of African,
According to Bocanegra, in
indigenous, coastal, Italian
Peru, “To eat is a party.”
and Chinese influences. A
typical dinner is served in Continued on page 39

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Tsehay Hailua in Ras Kassa’s Ethiopian Restaurant.

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GLOBAL KITCHENS
A Fresh Place:
G rowing up on a
farm in northern
India, Pari Gill
ate organic food
Indian kitchens
meals. Her favorite memory
is sitting and eating around
traditional way of preserving
food using oil, spices and
on numerology, advice
from a palm reader, and
astrological charts.
“Our charts totally hit it
grown on her own lands off,” says Gill.
the chulha fire. A chulha is fruits or vegetables. Made
every day. She drank milk The couple now owns and
a type of homemade clay to last an entire year, it is
from her own cows and operates Bombay Bistro, an
stove that uses wood as served to make every meal
enjoyed vegetables grown Indian restaurant on 1800
fuel to cook the food. The more flavorful. Gill’s favorite
in her own garden. Twenty Broadway St. in Boulder.
family sits on the balcony of is mango pickle.
members of her family She says she misses India,
their home and enjoys food The meal is also served
lived together in her home, where “all day is all about
straight from the skillet on with jalapenos and yogurt.
meaning cooking every day eating.”
the chulha stove. Indians love the sensation
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Although Indian cuisine of joining spicy and cool
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 TRAVEL
Soothing waters in New Mexico
F
ields of sage
brush and
pinion pine
trees fill the landscape
driving south on highway
285 towards Ojo Caliente,
N.M.
A few trailers and
abandoned gas stations
appear now and again along
with off-grid earth shelters
and a handful of meandering
cattle. The sky is vast and
blue with wisps of cirrus
clouds; long and slender
accumulations of moisture
carried by unseen air
currents high above. To the
east are the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains where the Taos
ski resort sits tucked away in
a hidden mountain valley.
But mostly, the high
dessert valley is open and
baron. The town of Ojo
Caliente is not much more
than a mercantile store,
a fire station and a diner.
Photos courtesy of www.ojocalientesprings.com
Ojo Caliente in New Mexico
42 May 18, 2009
Less than a quarter mile off
highway 285 is the entrance
to the mineral pools and spa.
True to the New Mexican
spirit, it has a blend of Native
American and Spanish
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influences with a funky
charm.
The spur-of-the-moment
trip with my husband to
New Mexico included a stop
at Mike’s Café in Taos, a
local favorite for breakfast,
where we ordered huevos
rancheros, hot coffee and
a sumptuous sopapilla with
honey. Curious about the
mineral pools nearby, we
headed west across the Rio
Grande canyon.
I had heard mixed
reviews about Ojo Caliente;
people seemed to either
love the place or feel really
uncomfortable there.
Regardless, the springs have
drawn travelers for centuries
and legends abound of their
healing powers. Native
Americans believed Mother
Earth offered the mineral
pools as a way to restore
those who lingered in her
liquid embrace, and feng
shui masters describe
water as one of the five key
If you go
There are a variety
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elements that shape and
transform all life, holding
qualities of descending,
peace and stillness.
Given the underlying
stress of the current
economic climate that hovers
like a thick fog, relaxing in
warm water held an alluring
promise of rejuvenation. And
so we entered the mineral
springs for a quiet pause
in the midst of our hectic
lives. We moved from the
iron pool, to the soda pool,
and then the arsenic/iron
pool, each known to alleviate
various ailments from
stomach problems to muscle
tension.
We sat under cascading
water, letting it flow over
our heads and onto our
shoulders, floated suspended
and weightless and felt our
feet being massaged as
we walked across pebbled
bottomed pools to stone
ledges where we reclined.
And like the hot water
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felt our own vibrant energy
begin to rise to the surface
as we soaked in the soothing
waters.
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IF I KNEW THEN
The old meets the new
M W
y husband
and I got
each other
a Kindle for Christmas. We
ordered it in November but
they were sold out. Lucky
for us, when it finally arrived
three months later we had
been upgraded to the brand
new and improved Kindle 2.
I should explain. Kindle is
an electronic book/library
created by Amazon. The
original version was about
the same size as a
book, looked like a
book and even felt
like a book. The
Kindle 2 is much
trimmer, has a lot
more storage and
will even read to me
in the voice of my Conant
choice, but it still
sort of looks and feels like a
book.
In a matter of seconds
I can download books,
newspapers and magazines
from the Amazon Store,
where they are only too
happy to charge my account.
Electronic books cost half
or less what a hardcover
goes for and I don’t have to
recycle anything. It’s very
cool and makes reading
almost addictive. But how
bad could that be?
The Kindle would be a
great gift for any college
student. Our niece, who is
a student, pointed out that
all those huge, expensive
textbooks could be had for
a fraction of their hardcover
cost, and kids wouldn’t get
back strain hauling around
weighty packs.
Of course Amazon created
the Kindle to make money.
It costs about $350 and the
books run anywhere from
44 May 18, 2009
$4 to $25. I could buy a lot
of paperbacks for $350. Still,
there’s definitely something
seductive about this slim
reader.
Some have suggested
the Kindle may be the
answer to the death of print
newspapers, a trend I mourn
as a former editor. I attended
an editors’ convention years
ago where technology
types demonstrated a
handheld device that was in
essence an electronic
newspaper and looked
very much like
Amazon’s Kindle. “This
is the future,” the geeks
proclaimed. Well, they
got that part right. They
just didn’t get it to the
marketplace ahead of
the Internet or before
information consumers got
used to free content.
Still, there may be
synergies between the
content newspaper reporters
produce and Kindle-style
delivery if only advertisers
will support it. It’s an idea
worth exploring.
In my perfect world, after
Amazon has made a bazillion
bucks off of Kindle, the
company will collaborate
with public libraries
everywhere to make those
titles available at no charge
to Kindle users. It’s the
perfect union of old and new
technology.
How cool would that be!
— By Colleen Conant
Conant, the former editor
of the Camera in Boulder,
retired after a 35-year career
in newspaper journalism.
She’s currently on the staff of
the Community Foundation
Serving Boulder County.
Women’s Magazine.
BE INSPIRED
It’s a small world after all
hen my fifth-grade class participated
in a pen pal project with a class in the
Philippines, I received a small black and
white photo of an exotic girl named Ruhammah Regecito.
As we exchanged letters for several years, Ruhammah
introduced me to a bigger world and my natural curiosity
was engaged.
My first flight was at 21, and by 30 it was commonplace
for me. By 40 I was traveling abroad, and by 50 I’d visited
more than 60 countries.
From Ruhammah to the friends I now have worldwide,
no matter where I am, one thing remains constant: We are
all the same. We have the same basic needs. We want the
best for our children and families. We want to be happy. We
want to be loved.
We are now living in unprecedented
times of global connectivity. The Internet
has changed our world. A letter that used
to take a month to get across the country
via Pony Express has been replaced by
instant messaging that spans the world
in seconds. By clicking a few keys, I can
send a message to 8,000 friends through Goodwin
Twitter or more than 15,000,000 through
LinkedIn in nearly every country in the world. Our only
limitation in today’s emerging world is now planetary.
Today the average person has access to the equivalent of
the total knowledge base of an entire country just 30 short
years ago. By the end of 2010, ninety percent of the world’s
population will have a mobile phone. It took 38 years for the
radio to reach 50,000,000 users; 13 years for television; four
years for computers; three years for the iPod and only two
years with Facebook.
Our planet has become one world, where economics,
culture, environment, politics and religion connect and
affect 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 to
embrace humanity and one another. It is a time to open our
hearts to our oneness, and to celebrate the places where we
agree rather than where we disagree.
By connecting to one another, borders and boundaries
that once separated us disappear. Hatred for an unknown or
misunderstood culture dissipates, as friendships from one
person to another create understanding. Never before has
our ability to reach out and touch someone been so signifi-
cant. With that ability comes opportunity. Never before has
it 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). Contact
Goodwin at gail@inspiremetoday.com.
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LIVING WITH CANCER

It runs in the blood

R
emember
when all hell
broke loose
in the ‘80’s after the AIDS
epidemic surfaced?
I had to get a blood
transfusion today and the
frightening thought was
“Am I going to be done in
time for my Tuesday night
reality show?” (What reality
show? I’ll never tell.)
The point is, it never
occurred to me during my
seven blood transfusions
that I should be apprehen-
sive about whose blood I
was actually receiving.
Back in the ‘80’s, you
were paid to give blood,
so you can imagine how
appealing that would be to
a drug user. These days,
Trevino
there are a series of ques-
tions, as well as various
screen tests, to ensure
donated blood is safe. As a
result, I need not fear about
HIV and can concentrate
more on conducting my
own little blood-screening.
When blood transfusions
became part of my monthly
routine, I started think-
ing long and hard about
which friends I would ask
to donate for me in hopes
of receiving a dose of their
personality/genes mixed
in with their blood. I have a
friend who graduated from
Harvard, a friend who re-
sembles Angelina Jolie, and
a friend who relentlessly
wins at the Blackjack table
I could already feel my IQ
jumping, my lips plumping,
and my wallet doubling as
I watched the blood slowly
drip into my IV. Who knew
blood 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 could
be anything from a killer
fashion sense to a sudden
jolt of the metabolism.
Now if I could only be-
friend Cameron Diaz; what
I wouldn’t give for those
legs.
— By Deandra Trevino
Trevino, of Boulder, was
diagnosed with stage 3C
ovarian cancer in July of
2007. Check out her online
blog at www.carepages.com,
and search “deandramtrevi-
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TWISTS OF FATE

You’ve heard of the ‘Vagina Monologues’

We at Women’s Magazine mourn your passing. stages of puberty, you were
believe the answer to most (if I remember exactly the beginning to show signs of
not all) problems is perspective. day I became aware of your maturing faster than I was. It
That’s why we thought it was presence. My mother quickly seemed like as the pages on
important to dedicate a space in looked at my dress (the the calendar turned, you were
our lives every month to stories average 12-year-old girl wore busy building extra cells and
about blessings in disguise. dresses in those days), put increased menorrhagia, which
Share your own experiences at me in the bathroom and tried was very annoying, to say the
Dinkey Lowe
speakup@womensmag.com. to explain to me just why you least. ... Since my ob-gyn was
about it, I realize this is a had decided to bleed all over having a slow season, and he

M
y mother and I
read the letter
from the editor
in March about fibroid tumors
and decided to write letters
to our own uteruses. Sounds
funny, but a uterus is at the
center of being a woman, yet
something we often overlook.
So here goes.
Thanks to my uterus:
My uterus. Uterus. I sit and
actually think about something
that is a part of me and that is
instrumental to things I hold
dear and cherish, something
that I don’t think on or muse
about often, something I take
for granted. My uterus treated
like a spleen, but much, much
more influential.
This is a piece of me that
gave me two wonderful
children, a part of me that
carried my boys softly, a
part that let them nuzzle me
and kick me and announce
their presence from the early
beginning. This is a part of
me that sickened me, that
nauseated me, that didn’t
want change or invasion but
accepted it anyway. A part of
me that weighs only about
two pounds. A part of me
that pushed into my stomach
to cradle and comfort the
invaders. In utero. I guess I
should say thank you, and think
on you and recognize the gift
of 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
part of me I use daily, a part
of me sexually, emotionally,
not just blatantly physically.
Uterus, you are connected
to my bladder, connected
to my cervix, connected to
my vagina, my arteries, my
veins, my ligaments. You are
connected to my bloodstream,
the bloodstream responsible
for, ahem, orgasm, deep uterine
orgasm. It is a real thing,
uterine orgasm, thanks to the
uterus.
You have really rounded me
out. The pregnancies rounded
me out, not so much physically
(at least not anymore), but
culturally, and mentally, and
definitely helped me realize
what I am here for. Not just me
but my children, my boys.
Maybe I should think on my
spleen a little more, maybe I’d
find out things my spleen can
do besides being the brunt of
this letter.
Still, today is my uterus’s day.
— Laura Dinkey, 30, of
Loveland
Dear Uterus (or to whom it
may concern, as I haven’t a clue
where my uterus has gone):
I haven’t really thought of
you in a long time, but since
2009 is the 20th anniversary
of your demise, I thought this
would be as good of a time
as any to find some sort of
“closure” in our separation. I
never really have felt guilty in
not writing to you earlier, as I’ve
always lived by the motto “out
of sight, out of mind.” I suppose
I should be grateful for the time
we spent together, but I did not
my clothes. “Wow!” I thought.
I was actually a real, live
grown woman now, with all the
equipment to make babies! I
was also so very excited that I
actually had something my six
brothers would never possess.
Little did I realize, you would
be my constant companion
for the next 37 years. And that
every month, usually right
on schedule, there you were
reminding me of this event. As
time went by, you and I actually
became quite close friends, but
I mostly tended to ignore you
for 28 days at a time, give or
take a few days.
You became a part of my
life that was tolerated out of
necessity and since all I ever
wanted out of this life was a
family, I grew to appreciate why
your were gifted to me, and
what your purpose would be.
Marriage brought a whole
new reason for your existence.
I never told you this before,
but I really do appreciate your
assistance in bringing my five
babies into this world. It was
fun watching my womb grow
with each pregnancy. I could
grow a fat belly and enjoy it.
Pregnancy was a joy. Thank
you also for making all those
deliveries so easy. Thank you
for being the best incubator
a girl could ask for. We also
shared four times when those
eggs just were not meant for
maturity and we cried together
over those miscarriages. Those
were very bad times for both
of us.
As time passed and those
babies grew into their own
was full of scary diagnoses, we
decided that you had to go on
to the uterine graveyard in the
sky, or wherever it is.
I’m sorry to admit that I did
not miss you, even after all you
had done for me and my family.
Having instant menopause
was not bad. I think the blame
for that belongs to my busy
family at the time. Who had
time for hot flashes? If it’s any
consolation to you, I do have
a very long scar on the lower
abdomen since the doctor also
took out everything remotely
attached to you. But my bikini
days were also over, so no
problem there. ...
Now, 20 years later, my
biggest regret I have for this
total abdominal hysterectomy
is the total flabby belly I’m still
left with. I’m blaming that on
you, dear uterus. You must
have known all that adipose
tissue had to go somewhere
after having all those babies.
Yuck, but no regrets otherwise.
This I can live with. Who
knows where I would be if you
had decided to stick around
causing me more trouble? Of
course, perhaps more calendar
turning, sedentary living, and
calorie intake might also have
had something to do with the
gravity pull.
In closing, thank you for
being the best womb a mom
could ask for and for all the
time we spent together. As
Erma Bombeck said, “If you
can’t make it better, you can
laugh at it.”
— Marilyn Lowe, 69, of
Loveland

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Boulder’s burlesque beauty, LaLa
A
ngela “LaLa”
Lucero, an
independent
burlesque dancer who
performs across the Front
Range, was 11 years old when
she saw her first Vargas picture
and fell in love with the ‘50s.
“My mom and baby sister
would dance around to
‘Grease Lightning’ in the
living room,” she remembers.
It was years later in 2007
when Lucero, who had never
done burlesque but still loved
the era, formed her first
burlesque group, Chiks on
the Hill.
“We didn’t know what we
were doing,” Lucero says.
“But we had the rockabilly
fever and the pin-up love,
so we did an interpretation
of what we thought was
burlesque.”
Lucero has a strict policy of
creating all original routines
and making all of her own
costumes. She says she is
often inspired by music in her
own collection.
“I have a skit to Dolly
Parton’s ‘Working Girl.’ I start
out in my bra and panties and
get ready for work. I take the
rollers out of my hair and
actually get dressed instead of
taking my clothes off,” Lucero
says.
Lucero, 29, takes her art
seriously — she says each
routine takes her more than
two weeks of work. She
works her day job and spends
the evening hours finding
costume accessories at Hobby
Lobby, sorting through songs
for ideas, and recording her
routines in her living room.
Lucero’s day job is doing
the bookkeeping for Rubicon
Hair Studio on 2116 Pearl
St., in Boulder, where her
coworkers are, as she says,
“150 percent supportive.” Her
boss even does her hair for
womensmag.com
LaLa
ever y show.
After we talked with Lucero
about her love for burlesque,
we asked her the five
questions we ask of all of our
favorite Front Range artists:
What is your ultimate
Women’s Magazine.
dealbreaker?
LaLa: Racism. If I see any
type of racism, we’re done at
that point.
What song would you
be embarrassed about if
people knew you had it on
your iPod?
LaLa: Any of my REO
Speedwagon. I, sadly enough,
know ever y song.
What’s your life’s motto?
LaLa: I don’t hold back on
anything I want to follow. I
sur vived a brain injur y and a
coma in 2005 because of a 45
foot fall from an apartment
building in Aurora, and I had
to do a full recover y to learn
to walk and talk again. The
accident is, in fact, the reason
I got into the modeling and
burlesque. Since I was given a
second chance at life I decided
to follow all my dreams. The
day I was released I told
myself I would never hold
back on anything I want to do.
Life is too short.
What’s your daily beauty
routine?
LaLa: I’m a compulsive
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plucker. I pluck my eyebrows
three to four times a day. I’m
so obsessive — I see one hair
and I’m crazy. I have close to
40 pairs of tweezers.
If you could have dinner
with a famous artist, dead
or alive, who would it be,
and what would you talk
about?
LaLa: John Lennon. I’m a
huge Beatles fan. I would love
to talk to John about current
day issues. His generation was
so completely different than
my generation. His aspects of
life were so positive. I would
love to have a political and
religious discussion — I know
I would lose terribly, and I
would love the loss.
— By Jennie Dorris
Know a local female artist or
entertainer we should feature?
E-mail noboysallowedcolumn@
gmail.com.
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