Every year on December 30, the AdAmAn Club travels from Manitou Springs to the top of Pikes Peak. At midnight, they launch fireworks in celebration of the New Year. Each year they add a new member to the group, hence the name “add-a-man,” whose name was stylized into “AdAmAn” by one of the original members. […]
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I often wonder, as I walk the streets of downtown Colorado Springs, what life was like here in the 1880s and ’90s, not long after General William Jackson Palmer founded our well-planned city. I imagine him strolling down the street after checking on things in his Antlers Hotel. Perhaps he chatted with people as he
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Most of the time, I love my students. As a college writing instructor, I come across all types. My writing class is a prerequisite for many other classes, and because of that, my students range from hard-core perfectionists to disgruntled mid-lifers, to precocious high school students, to bored grandmas, to battle-worn military veterans. Sometimes they
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Not many people have the honor of meeting a Holocaust survivor, so when I got a phone call offering the unique opportunity of hosting a Holocaust survivor for the day at our school, followed by a book signing, I couldn’t believe it. I fast-tracked approval for the event through the administration and arranged to pick
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Having a pet can be a challenge, especially with an active lifestyle. A person who decides to own a pet usually settles on a cat or a dog, becoming a “cat person” or a “dog person.” A common social belief is that pet ownership is divided into these factions, which are not to be crossed
Let’s have a little spelling lesson in the form of a math equation. The word “definitely,” by far the most frequently misspelled word I see in my students’ writing, can be easily broken down by simple math. Let’s start with the word’s root, “FIN.” Fin means final, or if you’re into French films, “the end.”