By Janayva Solis Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 911 Dispatcher Janayva Solis grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is fond of the outdoors. Hiking, camping, traveling, and adventures have always been her hobbies. Janayva’s bucket list consists of traveling to every state and eating food she can barely pronounce. She tries to learn a new […]
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Here, during my fifty-fifth year on earth, I’ve come to understand something everyone around me knew long ago: I’m not a born team player. Those who know me are underwhelmed by this revelation. Others, please read on. Really, all the evidence is there. I don’t like sports, and I loathed high school pep rallies. Churches
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I am really irritated at my neighbor’s dog, a miniature schnauzer. And not for what you might think. I have had neighbors whose dogs barked incessantly and pooped indiscriminately. That’s a whole other set of problems. Of course if I am really honest, it’s my neighbor and not her dog that I am really irked
Wait… hold the tar and feathers. I know it sounds like heresy, but I want to argue that it’s actually a good thing for the Broncos that the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. I know a lot of Bronco Country was rooting for Kansas City to lose. They are our loathsome rivals, after all, and
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When I wrote in my article “Altitude Sickness” about working at a local five-star hotel and the experiences I had with guests there, those anecdotes happened when I worked for the children’s program. I spent the eight years previous to that working in the retail part of the hotel. In fact, my first job ever
Going through an old file folder, I came upon a document that had somehow survived since the early 1970s. I only vaguely recall the circumstances surrounding its production. The Developmental Studies Department had gone on a retreat (the lingo back then for “paid vacation disguised as work”) to some rustic guest ranch somewhere out of