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This billboard was in downtown Denver. Every time we passed it, I cracked up. Isn’t it FABULOUS??? I doubt you’ll EVER guess why I love it so ……

Over the years of blogging, I’ve mentioned that I love the author Stephen King a time or fifty, right? I learned that the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado was the inspiration behind the book “The Shining”. So of course, you know we had to go there! It is one of those gorgeous old hotels [...]

Do you remember last week when I asked you the hypothetical multiple choice question of what you’d do when laying in the dental chair and you were asked to turn towards the clinician? Well, overwhelmingly, the answers were A: you’d simply turn your head. But…. in practical application – what REALLY happens is different. Let [...]

I’ve been conducting a rather unorthodox study of something and it leads me to have a question for you: If you are laying back in the dental chair and the clinician asks you to turn toward them, do you: a. simply roll your head toward them. b. lift your head up, turn toward them, and [...]

Because I have seen  quite possibly EVERY thing that could be YUCK in the mouth (several of these just this week alone!)… if you don’t have time to BRUSH your TEETH – here’s a word of advice for things to avoid, ONLY because they tend to cake against the teeth. 13 Things to NOT eat [...]

Five Moments of My Week: 1. I saw an 18 year old male patient, who had never received dental care before. He said his parents couldn’t afford to bring him in so he just got used to the pain. He had extensive decay, including 7 teeth with large abscesses and several totally rotted down to [...]

They can’t bear to look at each other.

The third stop along the two hour drive to Lena’s was here – at this very secluded little creek that runs into a cave. I have only been there in the summer before but since I was passing by and in the mood to stop for photos, I decided to go ahead and stop there [...]

When I was a little girl, my mom told me that these giant walls of rock that were cut out for the roads to go through were actually stair steps for the Jolly Green Giant to use. (This particular picture is just one step, whereas sometimes the steps are two or three levels high, cut [...]