Like many people, it is a tradition in our family to talk about what we are thankful for at the Thanksgiving meal. This year it will be tough and I’m not even including the election in calculating my difficulties. Since I am on record as predicting a Clinton landslide, some of my friends thought I […]
During our fourth week of U.S. Navy boot camp, we found ourselves in the service of the mess hall. The navy called it Service Week, and we’d been warned about it for the previous three weeks. Everyone said it would be a sweet little piece of hell made up of the most interminable days imaginable. To
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The movie, Loving, will open at Kimball’s Theater in downtown Colorado Springs on November 23, 2016. The film follows the courtship and marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 because their interracial marriage violates the state’s anti-miscegenation laws. Exiled
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When it comes to television, it might seem dismissive to refer to a series as a “little” show, as if that adjective somehow diminishes its importance or influence, but it can also be a compliment. A little show can be unpretentious, and it can fly under the radar. It can move in slow, deliberate strokes
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“Trick or treat!” David yelled as the door opened. He held out his plastic jack-o-lantern and the lady who answered the door put a small paper bag in it. “Thank you,” he said and turned around. I was a little suspicious that he got a paper bag instead of so-called fun size candy. I became
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Let’s say something bad happens to a guy. Maybe we don’t know if he had it coming. It could be a car accident, a life-altering injury, or a terrible disease. Perhaps he loses everything he owns in a natural disaster, or worse, gets caught with his hands in a metaphorical cookie jar. One day, everything’s fine, the
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