I’m awake, again. The bedside clock reads 2:14 a.m. and I can’t get back to sleep. The two ibuprofen I took at bedtime have worn off, and the deep, aching pelvic pain I’ve been experiencing for the last three days, which was only dulled by the painkillers, has now crept across my lower back and […]
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The “Pioneer Profiles” series explores some of the interesting characters that define Colorado history. This article discusses the life of Spencer Penrose. *** Spencer Penrose got a rather inauspicious debut in Colorado Springs. Fresh from a Harvard education that taught him little but decent boxing skills, Penrose had been eking out a living in Cripple
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Hours after Battleship Row’s ruins smoldered in Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces attacked the Philippines and Guam. Historians have written extensively about Hawaii’s “day of infamy” and General MacArthur’s 1942 retreat from Corregidor. However, the story of Guam’s heroic resistance to Japanese occupation from 1941-1944 remains unknown in U.S. history. The Chamorros, Guam’s indigenous people, governed
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When I close my eyes, I see apples. When I step out my back door, I smell apples. When I look out my front door and windows, I see apples clinging to the trees and lying on the ground. For several weeks as I lie in bed at night I hear them falling, landing with
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(Kayla Nieman is a Pikes Peak Community College student planning on studying radiology or photography next year, while still competing in weekend rodeos and furthering her riding.) Many people go to rodeos and tell me how easy barrel racing looks, but they would think differently if they were on the back of such a powerful
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I took this photograph at Chapman Dam State Park in the Allegheny Forest. When looking for subject matter to photograph, I am drawn to the small things that many times go unnoticed. This area of the spillway isn’t very eye catching at first glance, but beauty can be found in the most unlikely of places.