Gary, the psychologist, waited for me to get settled in my chair. I had been dreading this session all week. In our first session, my mother and father told Gary about the first fifteen years of my life. How they had provided for me, sacrificed to give me a Catholic education, and fulfilled all my […]
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Since the turn of the century, Colorado mining has left thousands of gallons of toxic, waste-filled sludge to rot and destroy the environment. Many mines in Colorado were abandoned due to improper permitting and usage. These shafts are leaking and negatively impacting the environment. Leaking sludge contains damaging, heavy metals that are slowly polluting river
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I cannot call what happened at UCC in Roseburg, Oregon a tragedy. Gun violence in general and mass shootings in particular have become too common place in America to call them tragedies. They are the natural consequences of allowing easy and unrestricted access to guns and ammunition. (Full disclosure: I own guns and a concealed
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Ah, Homecoming. Bonfires, cooler weather, football, school spirit, and nostalgia. What a wonderful time of year. Not everyone had a good experience in high school, but I did. Thirty years ago, I got to perform with the marching band in the halftime show for every football game, and those years in the band were some
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On a Trip to See Fall Leaves, September 2015 (for my husband) So it’s settled then. Some fall day I’ll come back here venture up a granite hill scatter the ashes of you, three golden retrievers, a first wife I never knew at this place so aptly named. I’ll look across to acknowledge the silent
I’ve just turned sixty, and I’ve developed an unexpected sensitivity. I wish I could say that I am now able to detect cosmic messages in twigs fallen on the lawn. Wouldn’t that be fun? No, although somewhat mystifying, this is a sensitivity to certain phrases about age. When I say, “I’ve just turned sixty,” to