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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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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To many, Marlon Brando was The Godfather. An older generation thinks of him as Stanley Kowalski. But to those of us closer to 70, he was The Wild One. My best friend, Carol, and I attended movies together from the time we were seven years old. The movie theater in our North Dakota hometown, population
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Christopher Parent, my friend Jerome’s son, died on February 28, 2018. He was just 32 years old, the victim of physical and life problems that would have pushed anyone to the limit. The moment I learned of his death, I felt relief for him and sorrow for his family, who will be suffering for the
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“What’s on your mind, Gary?” Facebook has been asking me this question a lot lately. Maybe you’ve been getting it too. I’ve been delaying my answer, partly because I’m not sure Facebook really cares. I’m also pretty sure it already knows the answer. In case you missed it, Facebook recently pulled another no-no in the
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Exhibit A: For the past few months, I’ve been re-watching one of my favorite television series, Monk. Maybe you know it. Tony Shalhoub plays Adrian Monk, a brilliant detective who works through endless phobias and social anxieties to solve crimes on a weekly basis. It’s hilarious, well-written, and brilliantly acted. Lately, I’ve noticed something else about
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