http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5About fifteen years ago, in a former life, I worked with Josephine and Josephine had a plan. She was driven by a single goal which was to work as hard as she could, climb the corporate ladder and make enough money so she and her husband could retire at forty-five and live the rest of their days ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~680457.aspx11/1/2009 2:52:21 PMCraig Janson About fifteen years ago, in a former life, I worked with Josephine and Josephine had a plan. She was driven by a single goal which was to work as hard as she could, climb the corporate ladder and make enough money so she and her husband could retire at forty-five and live the rest of their days ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~680448.aspx11/1/2009 2:37:13 PMCraig Janson "It's 'The Decade of Discontent'," I said a few years ago during a conversation about being in your forties. And it occurred to me this very well could be. Professionally, people of this vintage are often on the cusp of deciding to chase the money, continue to chase it, stop chasing it or do some...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~643640.aspx8/5/2009 10:51:09 AMCraig Janson I wonder what the woman was thinking as she sat on her motorcycle at a stoplight in suburban Chicago a few weekends ago. She might have been thinking of her kids, where she was headed or maybe nothing at all. No one knows but I bet it wasn't about was the car coming up behind her, at speed, as i...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~616157.aspx5/16/2009 9:57:37 AMCraig Janson I watch as the slippage peeks out here and there. I hear the questions repeated and know the previous asking has been forgotten. I see the slow, gray veil of confusion imperceptibly descending little by little. I am powerless to stop it; powerless to stem the damage to the mind. How do I...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~600042.aspx4/6/2009 10:53:10 AMCraig Janson I am a numbers person. Having studied math in college, I have always found all different manner of numbers, equations and formulas fascinating. There have been a lot of big numbers bandied about lately -- usually with dollar signs bolted on to the front -- and I got to thinking about how big thos...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~583049.aspx2/23/2009 9:51:08 AMCraig Janson It was the early nineties and the first time I saw Cortni, I was blown away. She had eyes like a cat with a regal aire that commanded the attention of the young men in the office. Carla, a co-worker, and I were across the room one day watching this phenomenon. She leaned over to me and whispered,...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~577790.aspx2/7/2009 1:58:15 PMCraig Janson It happens every year. As we descend into shorter days and longer nights. As the earth's axis tilts the northern hemisphere away from the sun and the light and radiant heat strike the U.S. at a more oblique angle, things change. The air cools, water condenses and when the temperature gets cold en...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~569762.aspx1/18/2009 11:25:21 AMCraig Janson I'm not a big fan of branding. I have a tendency to try to remove, cover or otherwise erase the brand names and logos that appear on the things I have, wear or buy. I'm not a big fan of items that do just one thing either. What if that one thing is something you only do once in a while. That appl...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~558503.aspx12/14/2008 10:46:44 AMCraig Janson Steve is a boy of six. He is a nice boy by all accounts and isn't one to get into trouble. I don't know him. I just know someone who does. But who he is isn't important. What happened is. It was after school on a typical Spring afternoon. Steve was finishing up his day and getting ready to go...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~558054.aspx12/12/2008 9:23:27 AMCraig Janson You're watching TV. An attractive couple lies in a bed breathless and obviously happy. They hold each other and whisper sweet nothings. Planting a quick kiss on her lover's cheek, the woman says she'll be right back, pulls to comforter to cover her nakedness and slides out of bed. On the way out ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~545902.aspx11/9/2008 11:40:02 AMCraig Janson There are some things in life that you experience young but only fully understand when the wisdom of age has layered enough of it's dust upon your heart. Over the past decade, there have been more than just a few times which, for me, bear this consideration out. One such instance has to do with n...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~545037.aspx11/6/2008 1:04:40 PMCraig Janson My 11-year-old has taken a keen interest in cooking and one day announced he wanted to make fettuccini alfredo (these pronouncements have come often of late..always something new.) So we did. What we didn't expect was how incredibly delicious it would be. It is, by far, the best I have ever had a...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~544016.aspx11/4/2008 11:07:51 AMCraig Janson Imagine this! You're walking North on Wilcox heading to dinner at the Castle Cafe, or maybe breakfast at B&B. About half way down the block a new business is setting up shop. They have boxes and equipment outside up against the front of their store. It's mostly moved out of the way, but there...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~539861.aspx10/25/2008 9:48:39 AMCraig Janson I brush my teeth with my right hand. I eat with my right hand. I shave with my right hand. I am considering writing with my right hand and I am left-handed. In Buddhism, part of the belief system centers around the precept of the present. They speak about being in the moment, focusing on ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~536766.aspx10/17/2008 5:51:05 PMCraig Janson In the end, it's all about either making yourself better or stronger or more fit or just more of something than you were. All that means is staying around a little or a lot longer because when it come down to it, we're here to either make more of us, survive or both. All the rest is just window...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~535772.aspx10/16/2008 8:10:08 AMCraig Janson With the election coming up, there is a lot that's going on and a lot of people getting all frothed up wanting you to vote their way. But by now I think most have made up their mind. Ballots are now arriving in the post and if you've made up your mind and perhaps already mailed your ballot, gre...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~535660.aspx10/15/2008 5:03:20 PMCraig Janson (Author's Note: I am not usually one to weigh in too heavily on politics, but I thought of a recent opinion piece by Curt Dale in the News-Press when I saw this one. ) A photo of a sign in someone's yard recently started making the rounds on the 'net: DEAR OBAMA 08 Sign Taker: We u...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~531303.aspx10/7/2008 3:36:40 PMCraig Janson You can recover mostly from trashing yourself skiing . Or at least after taking down a few pin up calendars on the wall; but sometimes things just keep coming back once you're to that place called Damage. The human shoulder, for example, is the one joint in the body that moves the most. It is ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~530652.aspx10/6/2008 3:28:16 PMCraig Janson When you're young, you do whatever you feel like. You are ten feet tall and bulletproof and nothing can stop or touch you. At least that's the perception...and maybe it was just my perception. I haven't taken a poll but from what I have observed, I am not the only one who rowed that boat. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~529850.aspx10/5/2008 9:29:37 AMCraig Janson Unless you live under a rock you've no doubt heard of the work the U.S. government is doing to stop the bleeding in the financial system. The number most bandied about is seven hundred billion which everyone knows is a large number. But do we really understand how very large that number is? It s...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~526628.aspx9/28/2008 12:05:12 PMCraig Janson Back in the 80s there was a cartoon called Bloom County by a guy named Burke Breathed (breath ed). One of the constants in that cartoon was the Dandelion Break. It essentially consisted of the characters Milo Bloom, Opus and any number of others heading out to the meadow and sitting amongst the d...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~525037.aspx9/23/2008 9:49:22 PMCraig Janson I didn't know him at all, but from what I have heard, life for Joseph John Janson was not all that kind to him. But before he was married. Before he had two sons. Before he tragically slipped and fell in a bathtub, drowning at the age of 57 and before life had thrown its curveballs, he was just a...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Travel/Blog~523838.aspx9/21/2008 12:10:28 PMCraig Janson I heard a busy signal the other day for the first time in, well, I'm not exactly sure, but it's been a while. Until I heard it, I hadn't realized that it was a dying thing. Something that now seems superfluous. It occurred the other day when calling a business. I don't think this is a common thin...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~523120.aspx9/18/2008 8:33:22 PMCraig Janson We were passing through Vail the other day on the way to a camping trip and stopped off at a 7-Eleven to stretch our legs and see what the big 7 had to offer (not much). On a whim, while purchasing a few comics for the boys, I threw two dollars on the counter and said "two, quick picks." This is ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~520972.aspx9/14/2008 4:07:41 PMCraig Janson "Dear Father, I don't know that the sun will ever rise and set for me again, but I trust in God and his mercy. At eight o'clock, I sit in court. The mob have me under guard. There is no cowardice in me, Father. I am worthy of you in this respect. I am, in this one respect, like Him who died ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~517825.aspx9/5/2008 8:09:10 PMCraig Janson Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about what happens to the missing socks in the laundry. They had to go somewhere right? That's the law of conservation of matter and energy. But for some reason, they disappear. Never to be seen again. We have a bundle of socks tied together in our laundry basket. It ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Blog~514206.aspx8/28/2008 10:18:50 AMCraig Janson There are probably about a million ways to avoid catching a virus, getting malware, getting spyware or getting your identity stolen. And there are likely just as many articles about it. But I get no more than 100 spam emails a month, I have never gotten a computer virus, I have never lost data (u...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Technology-The-Web/Web/Blog~513001.aspx8/25/2008 6:12:40 PMCraig Janson There is a saying in marketing about what it takes to sell a product. Sell the sizzle, not the bacon. That, it seems, is what marketers focus on these days -- the perception, not the actual product, quality of it or how it will actually help the customer. A few days ago, my wife and son stopp...http://denver.yourhub.com/CastleRock/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~509503.aspx8/18/2008 8:48:44 AMCraig Janson