Meredith C. Carroll
Aspen Times
Aspen, CO, United States
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The pandemic in Aspen/Snowmass, by the numbers
While officials from Aspen, Snowmass Village and Pitkin County are monitoring the health and economic impacts of the Covid-19 situation, new data has emerged illustrating how the pandemic is affecting everyday local life. A summary... → Read More
Meredith C. Carroll: A different kind of Class of 2020 commencement
It may have been easier to accept my high school graduation moving indoors had it rained all day. Instead, the sky passed the morning and afternoon leading up to → Read More
Meredith Carroll: It’s not about the e-bike
The first problem with electronic bicycles is that I don’t own one. For a few minutes several years ago I sneered at the idea of e-bikes. Real athletes, I → Read More
The origin story of Alcoholics Anonymous
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A definitive guide to retirement health-care costs
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Take my uterus, please
When I was in high school, my mom took me to Washington, D.C., to march for a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and protest President → Read More
9 Things You Can Do With a Placenta
Afterbirth can live on well past labor | A placenta can live on well past labor → Read More
Meredith Carroll: The 2018 ‘You Had One Job’ awards
Biting off more than you can chew is a job best left to the experts, like Joey Chestnut or Jared Kushner. Everyone else would be wise to focus on → Read More
Meredith C. Carroll: 30 things faster than Aspen’s new Starbucks
An angel lost its wings when the Starbucks on Gondola Plaza served its last flat white a little over a year ago. Other than hot yoga, Spanx, writing letters → Read More
Meredith C. Carroll: What’s the difference between branded vans parked on Main Street and sandwich boards?
The Aspen City Council refrained from taking a bite out of sandwich boards at Monday’s meeting due to the potential implications of a 3-year-old United States Supreme Court “content → Read More
Meredith C. Carroll: Aspen True or False — Summer 2018 edition
Information moves quickly during the jam-packed Aspen summer season, a fact that can make fake news harder to decipher and easier to spread. Here’s a quick true-or-false quiz to → Read More
Meredith C. Carroll: Aspen government masters art of spending other people’s money
Since the project began in earnest last month, complaints about the city of Aspen’s nearly $5 million, four-month-long Castle Creek Bridge makeover have been like the breadsticks at Olive → Read More
Why Does the Latest Birthing 'Trend' Include Plastic Surgeons?
You thought you were on trend with your home water birth? Think again. → Read More
Meredith C. Carroll: Beware Aspen’s NextGen in sheep’s clothing
In case you missed the letter to the editor from Aspen’s Next Generation Advisory Commission in Friday’s Aspen Times — or if your reading glasses were AWOL or you → Read More
I'm a size zero. I get shamed for it all the time.
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More
How women of color are carving out their own place in the world of cannabis
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More
It's time to get rid of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Meredith C. Carroll: Yes, we cannabis
A newer editor for a website to which I have been a long-time contributor recently asked if I would write a piece about drinking alcohol in front of my → Read More
This Exclusively Pumping Mom's Gorgeous Photos Are What All New Moms Need to See
Here's to the pumping moms. (That is, if you can hear over the noise of the pump.) → Read More
Mom Won't Let Kid Go to Preschool with 'Fat' Teachers and I Don't Disagree
Is it "fatism" or is Hilary Freeman doing right by her kid? → Read More