I don’t know what you’re doing this Valentine’s Day weekend, but chances are good it will involve swanky restaurant reservations, watching Love Actually or The Princess Bride, and ingesting startling amounts of chocolate, all of which are among life’s finest pursuits. Those things are most likely in my future, too, but another thing I’ll be […]
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Week 1: Chapters 1, and 2 (pages 2-19—18 pages) –Exiting a plane, Diana Buchanan asks Wade Middleton’s help with a heavy saddle. He throws his back out. Guilt overcomes her conservatism; she drives him home. The next morning his friend Jorge Calderon comes seeking help at work. –When Diana asks Wade about his interest in
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It was 1993, and I was twenty-eight years old, still single, and living in student housing in southern Alabama. I was about to complete a bachelor’s degree in psychology with no real plans of what to do once that came to pass. One option was to keep working at the local airport and pursue my
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Go north, dad,” my son told me over the phone. “How am I supposed to know which way is north?” I asked him. It was snowing hard in Greeley so I couldn’t see the mountains to orient myself. “Just turn left at the next intersection,” he assured me. I was lost in Greeley in my
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As the end of January approaches, and New Year’s Day shrinks in the rearview, a question lingers in my mind. What is it about holidays that inspires “educational” cable channel producers to air every apocalyptic documentary in their catalog? Even if you think you don’t know what I’m talking about, you probably do. Flip through
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Already, 2016 is turning out to be a terrible year for being a musician of a certain age, and we haven’t even finished the third full week. A few days ago, David Bowie died, and now, Glenn Frey is gone. A few might dismiss Frey as “The Heat is On” guy, the ex-Eagle who also
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