Free Fitness and Frosty Fun

On a budget? Looking to boost vitamin D and oxygen levels this winter? Need a break? Consider the following and you’ll discover you’re in the right place for some frugal frolics when the forecast is freezing. Numbers regarding sunny days in…

Home Brewing and the Secret to Happiness

This month I decided to try to explore the world of zymurgy. Zymurgy is a branch of applied chemistry dealing with fermentation, as in winemaking, brewing, the preparation of yeast. The word zymurgy first appears in literature around 1868, and is a…

Entrepreneurship: Follow Your Passion

Entrepreneurship is about finding an idea or concept you are passionate about and acting on it to make the dream a reality. Freedom, flexibility, and doing what you enjoy are desires people seek, yet might not have with their current position…

Christmas 2011: Boom or Bust?

For the past few years I have been preaching that it’s the business not the customers who determine whether you will have a profitable Christmas shopping season. If you are hearing this prognostication for the first time you might think I’m a…

Real Estate Market Update: January 1st through October 1st, 2011

I usually don’t include numbers for the sale of condominiums in the area, but this month I thought it noteworthy that condo sales increased dramatically this year. 164 condos sold during the time period of January 1st through October 1st of 2011…

Speaking Your Truth

What is truth? What is your truth? Truth is saying what you know to be true for you, not based on beliefs, or what someone else said, it’s not based on fear of being judged or a need for control, it is Truth. It is truth about how you feel, truth…

Red Lodge Ales: Thor’s Two Goats and Resurrection DoppelBock

This month we took a road trip to a really fun brewery, the Red Lodge Ales Brewing Company in Red Lodge. The taproom opens at 11am and since it’s a two hour drive from Bozeman, we left at 9am, which meant getting up at 7:30 on a Saturday. We wanted…

Medical Marijuana will be up to the Montana Voter in November 2012

Montana’s voters will for the first time in ten years vote on a law enacted by the Montana State Legislature. I-124, also known as the “repeal” of SB 423, will be on the ballot in November 2012. SB 423 passed the legislature in the waning…