By Erin Allen January has come and gone, and I've thought long and hard about what I want for 2018. I recently read an article about "How to Reflect With Purpose On Your 2017." Of the several suggestions that resonated were the ideas of naming your year and carrying 2017's takeaways into 2018 and turning those reflections into experience. In 2017, I uprooted myself from a solid job and established life to start a new chapter in Colorado. So, perhaps 2017 could be called "The

By Erin Allen & Sara E Walker A few weeks ago, we traveled to Denver to play in a roller derby bout against the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls Project Mayhem. Backtrack a little bit, and yes, we both joined the local roller derby league here in Durango -- the Durango Roller Girls. For those not in the know, we've both been playing flat track roller derby since 2010. The team was tough, and the bout was hard. However, it got us thinking about our human experiment and everything t