I find myself in an old shack. An old shotgun hangs above the door, a metaphor for the shack. I do not remember this shack. So far as I know, I have never been here before. But somehow, it is the same as it ever was. I get up off of the old wooden floor; […]
I look at old photos of myself from twenty or thirty years back. Then I look in the mirror, and the man who stares back is nearly unrecognizable to me. I remember as a child wondering why my father had such a big belly, and “couldn’t he do something about it?” It was kind of
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It’s an all too common sight these days in Colorado Springs. this otherwise beautiful city on the front range of the Rocky Mountains and home to Fort Carson: people in ragged, dirty clothes stand on busy street corners displaying sad messages drawn on pieces of cardboard boxes, such as “lost job, need money” or “will
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As the saying goes, “You are what you eat.” Americans eat too many sweets. As a result, the country is suffering a serious health crisis. Dating back to the 1950s, professionals within the medical, nutritional, political, and food industries solely blamed fats and cholesterols for the planet’s growing health concerns. So people cut the fats
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It’s hard to maintain credibility in a field where evidence is rarely concrete. Generally, those who believe in aliens are typically equated with conspiracy theorists because of the cover up conspiracy that infiltrates many encounter stories. Quite a few pragmatic thinkers link conspiracy theories to paranoia. As a result, they see UFO researchers as misguided
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Arrival Anna flies from Fresno to Denver, rents a car and arrives at Lucy’s house Saturday afternoon. They pick Janice and Alpha up that evening from the Colorado Springs airport and have a patio dinner with the one dish non-domestic Lucy knows how to prepare: teriyaki chicken. She adds brown rice, salad and a bottle
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