Author: Irmawriter
-

How to Always Think Positive: Thoughts on Creating Your Own Sunshine
When things in life are not going the way I want, I stop and ask myself, “what action can I take right now to have things go better?” Or I ask myself “what positive action(s) could I take to get me to living the life I want to live?” We all have goals. We all have dreams.…
-

Advice I Wish I Had In My 20s
We’ve all made mistakes in our 20s but we live and learn – and hopefully share! I wanted to share some of the things that I’ve learned over the last few years. Here are some important advice I wish I had in my 20s: It doesn’t matter what you major in. Hard work and ambition…
-

For The Love Of Fashion: Brandi Shigley’s Motivation to Success
Dreamer and doer Brandi Shigley has been motivating and transforming the Denver fashion community since 2004, when she founded Fashion Denver, a local organization that supports aspiring designers to grow their businesses. Shigley is a strong believer in “Do What You Love, Love What You Do,” which has been her number one motto throughout her…
-

The Future of Journalism in the 21st Century
Suzanne Popovich Chandler is a broadcast and photojournalist who has been in journalism business for 35 years. She freelanced extensively for the ABC, NBC, and CBS networks including, 60 Minutes, America’s Most Wanted, Dateline and ESPN, and has been awarded numerous awards as a professional photographer. As traditional newsrooms and editorial controls slowly vanish, the…
-

My Childhood Adventures in Odessa, Ukraine
A Travel Story It was a hot sunny summer day in the afternoon in June 1995. My mother and I patiently waited for our train at Yaroslavsky Railway Station in Moscow. We were off to our annual summer vacation to Odessa, Ukraine, a beautiful seaport city located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. Odessa,…
-

The Phenomenon Of Denver Fashion Bloggers
How Blogging has changed the Way We Search for Fashion Inspiration For the past five years, a fashion blogging phenomenon has been taking Denver’s growing fashion community by surprise. Fashion and personal style bloggers, such as Alena Gidenko from ModaPrints.com and Karissa Marie from KarrisaMarieBlog.com are becoming the next local fashion sensations. Over the past decade, influential international fashion…
-

How Online Dating effects the Way College Students meet on Campus
It’s difficult to meet people on campus organically, because everyone is too sewn to their phones and thinking of what their next move is going to be on Instagram or Snapchat. A lot of 20-somethings may just look for a hookup, however, there are college students who look-or-are looking for something a little more serious and…
-

The Advantages of Living Off-Campus Housing
Living off-campus has its own benefits Auraria Campus is one of the largest college campuses in Denver and is located right in the heart of Downtown Denver. Auraria is a commuter campus, which includes three higher education institutions, such as the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver and Community College of Denver.…
-

Matisse and Friends: Denver Art Museum’s Latest Exhibit
DENVER – Looking at the pleasing colors and understandable subject matter of the paintings in the Denver Art Museum’s latest exhibit, “Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art,” on display through Feb. 8, 2015, it’s hard to imagine that the artists were called “wild beasts” “les fauves” by Parisian art critics.…
-

The Premier Fashion Event of the Year
DENVER – Four years of Colorado Fashion Week and it only gets better. Denver hails CFW as the Primer Fashion Event of the Year. On Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 Colorado Fashion Week presented the collections of the most promising emerging and established fashion designers and brands as part of the international fashion business calendar. CFW…