“…And because water is 800 times denser than air, you’ll work opposing muscles more than you would on land, says Ellen Nordberg, a water-running instructor in Colorado.”
Ellen Nordberg
Boulder Weekly “Listen To Your Mother Show” 2015
Listen To Your Mother was featured in the Boulder Weekly in 2015.
Colorado Authors’ League Essay Award 2015
DAILY CAMERA: “Two Boulder County Authors Win State Awards!” DENVER POST: “Colorado Authors’ League Announces Winners!”
Truth Be Told Grand Slam, February
Ellen shares the story of her second chance at love at the Truth Be Told Grand Slam
BWW Ink Award for Best Magazine Writer 2015
Ellen won the Boulder Writers’ Workshop Ink Award for Best Magazine Writer, 2015.
Reader’s Choice Award
Thanks to all who voted! Ellen’s story ‘The Ambivalent Mother’ won a Reader’s Choice Award in the Flatiron Literary Review.”
The Pick-Up Artists
Originally featured in Errant Parent
When I discovered I was pregnant with identical twin boys, I had lovely fantasies about what that would be like and who they might become: matching denim overalls, sweet manners, a lack of interest in girls until puberty, and a curiosity about the earth that would lead them to become environmental engineers and save the planet, or at least the ocean.
The reality is something completely different. Instead, I find myself with five year old blond, blue-eyed tag-teaming hustlers, unafraid to approach any pretty female, regardless of her age.
Cross Country Skiing Without Snow?
From Boulder Lifestyle, October 2014.
“The greatest thing is that Nordic Walking covers all levels of ability and disability.”
Boulder Writers’ Workshop – Literary Salon Highlights
Ellen Nordberg Talks About Career Building Read the article on Boulder Writers’ Workshop
Five Rules of Holiday Etiquette Not to Bother Teaching Your Children
From Boulder Lifestyle December 2014
Over the course of twelve Decembers trying to instill Emily Post-worthy behavior in my identical twin boys, I’ve seen many of my holiday manners tutorials come back to bite me.