Tyra Sutak

The Bolder Life: Moving Mountains

One year ago today, I was laid up, and severely drugged up, nestled in a fort of pillows and sipping on Cherry 7-Up at my parent’s house after having my third ACL/meniscus repair and my fifth knee surgery overall. It was terrible. It was the worst recovery that I’d ever experienced, and I can’t even express with words the type of depression that came with complete immobility

The Bolder Life: Everybody Homebrews…

President Obama spoke on the CU Boulder campus on Sunday and made quite an impression on the large crowd that packed themselves together like sardines to hear some hopeful words about the future from the current president. Though Obama has obviously been making more headlines than usual lately, chalked up to the election season, he’s also making headlines for joining the 1,000,000 folks that

The Bolder Life: The Dating Life

Dating. Is hard. And unlike a fine wine, it doesn’t get any better with age. Lately I’ve been hitting the dating scene a little harder than usual. I’m mostly in the market for a reliable date to be my plus one at the weddings of all of my engaged friends so I don’t have to deal with the awkward conversation that inevitably comes from the token single guy that gets assigned to sit next to

The Bolder Life: Good deed, good karma

Volunteering can be fun, and rewarding, and really good for chalking up a few points in the karma column. Becoming an avid volunteer is a lot like finding a good pair of shoes. Sometimes you have try on a few pairs until you find the right fit. And sometimes, the karmic rewards of your good deeds are immediate; like getting a free beer or meal for volunteering your time. Or getting an access pass

The Bolder Life: Happiness Is…

Some people find happiness at the bottom of a giant bowl of triple fudge ice cream. Others define happiness by the amount of extra zeros on their paycheck. For me, happiness is a cool mountain breeze, the taste of a perfectly roasted marshmallow and the feeling you get when you reach the top of whatever

The Bolder Life: Friday, Friday, Friday…

Sing it with me now! In the words of Rebecca Black, it’s Friday, Friday, Friday—and I think we’re all pretty thankful for that. With the weekend creeping up around the corner and the end of summer nearing, I’ve already entered warm-weather-is-ending panic mode which naturally mean that I have a Colorado weekend full of rafting, mountains, hiking, beer-drinking and camping planned

The Bolder Life: Food Truck Roundup

Food trucks are all the rage in Boulder County these days. They’re everywhere. They set up shop in busy office parks during lunch and feed grateful and hungry patrons outside of restaurant-less breweries—they even make special appearances at weddings! I love food trucks. And the variety and quality of food coming out of these mobile foodie joints continues to fascinate me every day. My

The Bolder Life: A Week of Good Beer

I know, I know—every week in Colorado is the week of good beer. But seriously—there are some great events going on the rest of this week, concocted and hosted by some of your favorite local breweries. Check out these interesting events, and don’t forget that tickets for the daddy of all beer events go on sale tomorrow! Get your Great American Beer Festival tickets here starting at

The Bolder Life: 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival

Shortly after The Bolder Life was born last summer, I got an email from the editor of Yellow Scene asking if I wanted to go to the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival at the Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder. “I can get you a media pass, if you’re up for it,” she said. Although she had me a “media pass” (media passes are always just really fun things to have), I was so intrigued by the fact

The Bolder Life: Bootstrap Brewing

I have this friend. We grew up together which is why he trusts me enough not to question me when I text him an address and tell him to meet me at a place he's never heard of. He either has a really great GPS system or a really good sense of direction because he always shows. Without fail. He waits patiently as I ask a hundred questions about the beer list and he usually approves of whichever beer