I ate a raspberry yesterday. Big deal, you might respond. Anybody can do that. And it’s true. For a price, anybody can buy and eat raspberries. But not the one I had. First of all, I’m not a big fan of raspberries au natural. In jam or cheesecake, yes. After all, cheesecake makes everything taste […]
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The time has come for those who support the right to abortion to admit that there is no short term political solution to keep abortion legal. The right to life movement has created a winning strategy of killing abortion rights by regulatory strangulation. Exhibit A is the Texas Abortion Law which makes abortion illegal for
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Colorado Springs is celebrating its 150th birthday this year. That’s right—this year’s new buzzword is “sesquicentennial.” By comparison to some large cities on the east coast, Colorado Springs is fairly young, but for longtime residents in the shadow of Pikes Peak, there’s a lot to celebrate. Check out coloradosprings.gov/cos-150 for a year-long, full slate of
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“E Pluribus Unum.” Out of many, one. Our national motto, written in a dead language so the meaning wouldn’t change with the vagaries of daily use. The founders understood the necessity of correct use of language as well as those who subvert its meaning to their own selfish ends. Words matter. Exhibit A is that
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As part of learning my craft as a writer, I belonged to the Rocky Mountain Writer’s Workshop in the seventies and eighties. It was an invaluable experience that took me from a bumbling wannabe to a confident albeit part-time professional. The writer-in-residence for the monthly workshop was the award winning Denver author Ed Bryant. Ed’s
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The bat hit the ball with the crunching sound of an axe splitting wood. I couldn’t really see it, but everyone’s head swiveled in my direction, so I knew that in spite of the odds, a right-handed batter had just hit a ball to my position in right field. “Catch it!” people started yelling, more
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It was a rainy night, and my wife and I were on our way to Vail to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary. I crested a hilly curve. and on the other side was chaos. A small pickup truck had skidded on the wet road into the guard rail and rolled several times. Emergency vehicles hadn’t
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We had just spent two days going over every bench mark for the elementary and junior high portion of our school district’s math curriculum when the high school Calculus teacher stunned the room. “We don’t need any bench marks for high school,” he said. “Some kids just can’t do math and we shouldn’t prevent them
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I remember the moment I learned that teachers get no respect anymore. “So what are you going to do to help him, Mr. Parent?” asked the mother of a student failing my eighth grade physical science class. My principal then repeated the question, leading to my stunned silence. The child failed my class because he didn’t
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It was 1966 and I sat at my desk listening to my ancient, (even for those days) red GE radio with white dials. The AM station (FM radios were way too expensive for my dad’s wallet) KYSN (1460) was playing a version of the rock and roll classic song Gloria. I was making much better progress
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