“White Christmas” has resonated for more than 80 years, and I think the reasons why are worth understanding…
Category: Essays
PHOTO ESSAY: Pagosa Peak Open School Presents Annual ‘Snow Show’ at PSCA
It was the school’s third year of presenting the “Snow Show” — and the first year the school presented at the Pagosa Center for the Arts…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
Yet I have a story about one of the greatest evangelists in history. And he only converted one person in his life…
The 2023 Christmas Cookie Inflation Guide
We might be told that inflation is up only 3.2% (3.3% for food), but in my reality I’m paying 12% more for baking ingredients than I paid last year….
ESSAY: Recommended Reading, to Quell Reeling Minds
All around me people are driving angry, shopping furiously and preparing to rage vote next year…
ESSAY: ‘Caveat lector’… Let the Reader Beware, Part Two
“Helicopters in residential areas are completely inappropriate. The noise is overwhelming. I know because I live where the Durango Flight for Life helicopter flies over my home…”
ESSAY: ‘Caveat lector’… Let the Reader Beware, Part One
Apparently, the article I wrote a few weeks ago about a proposed private heliport/helipad project hit a nerve… and it wasn’t the funny bone…
ESSAY: ‘Dia de los Muertos’ Looking More Like Halloween
Halloween’s influence is transforming Día de los Muertos into a hybrid cultural tradition…
ESSAY: Issues Hover Around Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part One
I’m a sucker for a good cause and a great story. This issue seemed to have both. I was beginning to recognize why I might care…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: My 55th High School Class Reunion
We came of age in the turbulence of the 1960s, graduating high school in possibly the worst year of that decade…
ESSAY: Attending College While Raising a Child… in Colorado
She couldn’t find daycare for her son, Ramiro, and her grandparents, who were supposed to watch him, were sick…
ESSAY: A ‘First Day of School’ Ritual
When we came back to school this year, everyone knew it would be similar to last year…
ESSAY: Growing Healthy in the Garden
Gardening has been shown to have many mental and physical health benefits by getting people outside and working in the soil…
PHOTO ESSAY: Annual Spanish Fiesta a Big Success
A group of over 20 different families came together to rekindle the fondly-remembered Pagosa Springs Spanish Fiestas…
ESSAY: Giordano Bruno, 475 Years Later
We need to revive his legacy, because Bruno’s life and thought evince the virtues of which we are in such short supply…
EDITORIAL: Celebrating Freedom
I know very little about most of these 250 independent nations. I was not expected to learn much about them, during my public school education…
HMPRESENTLY: Comparing Demographic Cohorts’ Lingo
So, let’s say you’re in the Gen X cohort. You were born between 1965 and 1980. Would ‘feh’ be familiar to you?
ESSAY: Which States Celebrate Juneteenth?
Other states that weren’t part of the Civil War, like Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho, New Mexico, and South Dakota, which do celebrate Juneteenth…