Laurel Aiello
Laurel Aiello has always called Northern Colorado home. A Fort Collins native who now lives in Loveland, she enjoys long bike rides, tending to her garden, paddleboarding at Horsetooth Reservoir, camping and fishing in the mountains and listening to live music on a sunny downtown patio. She married her high school sweetheart in 2022 and is completely obsessed with her Great Pyrenees mix, Twyla. Laurel got her start in magazine writing at Denver Life Magazine and has spent many years writing for regional lifestyle publications, including AvidLifestyle Magazine and NOCO Style. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in sociology from Colorado State University, where she got involved with student media and fell in love with the art of storytelling.

Selected works by the author:

Try Some D.I.Y.

Try Some D.I.Y.

All the extra time spent at home these last few years has led to a rekindled interest in learning new skills. Whether that be trying new recipes in the kitchen, building things in the garage or getting our hands dirty in the garden, we have largely relied on the...

Top 10 Wedding Trends of 2022

Top 10 Wedding Trends of 2022

Weddings aren’t the grand affairs they used to be, with mile-long guest lists, three-tiered cakes and a dozen bridesmaids lined up by the altar. This year festivities are looking less traditional and more intimate than ever before—and not just because of COVID-19...

Tips for Terrarium Building

Tips for Terrarium Building

Humans have been caring for little plants in glass jars for hundreds of years. These intricate enclosures, called terrariums, date back to the 1800s in Europe when travelers discovered they could bring exotic plants back from the tropics.

Food for Thought

Food for Thought

By Laurel Thompson Every one of us has been guilty of wasting food. Maybe your eyes are bigger than your stomach at the dinner table or shopping hungry leads to impulse buys at Costco, but the result is almost always the same: perfectly good food ending up in the...

Putting Down Roots

Putting Down Roots

Stuart Conway and Richard Fox founded Trees, Water & People (TWP) in 1998 to help reverse deforestation in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and other parts of Central America. Then it occurred to them that by planting trees without addressing the reasons they were being cut down, they were only doing half the job.