Dan England

3 weeks ago | nocostyle.com | Dan England

Whenever one of Janie Sanchez’s plants isn’t happy, she walks it four blocks to her mother’s house in Windsor. Maria Segura is 73 and can still grow, revive or resurrect anything green, even plants that have no business sprouting in our cold, arid climate. She once grew sugar cane using buckets of ditch water near her family’s farmhouse between Greeley and Windsor to keep it happy.

1 month ago | nocostyle.com | Dan England

Local leaders read to elementary students in GreeleyAll week, Fidel Sanchez’s second-grade daughter—he calls her “G”—asked him one question: “Daddy, is today the day?”The day finally came on Friday, March 7. It was the day she and other University Schools elementary students dressed as their favorite book characters, including the Lorax and a flock of princesses, and listened as leaders from all over Greeley read to them.

1 month ago | coloradosun.com | Dan England |Dana Coffield

This is the time of year when Jeff Yost didn’t envy the wildlife officers working in the Denver metro area. Yost worked as a biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife for years, and every year, he’d hear about the problems caused by residents feeding deer. This was especially true in the winter, when more deer wander off the snowy mountains into populated areas to find easier food and habitat. Residents would see deer in the snow and cold and feel sorry for them.

1 month ago | nocostyle.com | Dan England

There’s a reason they call it the honeymoon phase. Maybe you’re still in it. Maybe you’re as twitterpated as Thumper, and the scent of spring flowers floats through your nostrils whenever you see your fiancé. So why on earth would you need premarital counseling? This question makes Chris Berger giggle.

1 month ago | nocostyle.com | Dan England

Tanis Roeder has worked as a professional speaker and coach for 15 years. Last month, before an important presentation, she woke up feeling like she was going to throw up. It’s fine, in other words, to be nervous before a big speech. “If you aren’t nervous,” Roeder says, “you aren’t taking it seriously enough.”Roeder is a public speaking coach based in Fort Collins whose clients include corporate leaders across the country as well as people giving eulogies, graduation speeches and toasts.