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Category: Essays

ESSAY: ‘Caveat lector’… Let the Reader Beware, Part One

Posted on November 6, 2023November 7, 2023 by Kim Elzinga

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…

Posted in Essays

ESSAY: ‘Dia de los Muertos’ Looking More Like Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 by Post Contributor

Halloween’s influence is transforming Día de los Muertos into a hybrid cultural tradition…

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ESSAY: Issues Hover Around Proposed Terry Robinson Road Helipad, Part One

Posted on October 16, 2023October 23, 2023 by Kim Elzinga

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…

Posted in Essays, Opinion/Letters

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: My 55th High School Class Reunion

Posted on October 4, 2023October 5, 2023 by Gary Beatty

We came of age in the turbulence of the 1960s, graduating high school in possibly the worst year of that decade…

Posted in Essays

ESSAY: Attending College While Raising a Child… in Colorado

Posted on September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 by Post Contributor

She couldn’t find daycare for her son, Ramiro, and her grandparents, who were supposed to watch him, were sick…

Posted in Education/Health, Essays

ESSAY: A ‘First Day of School’ Ritual

Posted on September 6, 2023September 6, 2023 by Post Contributor

When we came back to school this year, everyone knew it would be similar to last year…

Posted in Education/Health, Essays

ESSAY: Growing Healthy in the Garden

Posted on August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 by Post Contributor

Gardening has been shown to have many mental and physical health benefits by getting people outside and working in the soil…

Posted in Essays
PHOTO ESSAY: Annual Spanish Fiesta a Big Success

PHOTO ESSAY: Annual Spanish Fiesta a Big Success

Posted on August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 by Rosa Chavez

A group of over 20 different families came together to rekindle the fondly-remembered Pagosa Springs Spanish Fiestas…

Posted in Essays

ESSAY: Giordano Bruno, 475 Years Later

Posted on August 1, 2023August 1, 2023 by Post Contributor

We need to revive his legacy, because Bruno’s life and thought evince the virtues of which we are in such short supply…

Posted in Essays

EDITORIAL: Celebrating Freedom

Posted on July 4, 2023July 4, 2023 by Bill Hudson

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…

Posted in Essays

HMPRESENTLY: Comparing Demographic Cohorts’ Lingo

Posted on June 21, 2023June 21, 2023 by Harvey Radin

So, let’s say you’re in the Gen X cohort. You were born between 1965 and 1980. Would ‘feh’ be familiar to you?

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ESSAY: Which States Celebrate Juneteenth?

Posted on June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 by John Tures

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…

Posted in Essays
EDITORIAL: A Trip to Washington DC, Part Two

EDITORIAL: A Trip to Washington DC, Part Two

Posted on June 13, 2023June 14, 2023 by Bill Hudson

Lily and Ursala had learned a particular style of weaving from their mother, Clarissa Rizal, who was herself a fairly renowned weaver and weaving teacher…

Posted in Essays
EDITORIAL: A Trip to Washington DC, Part One

EDITORIAL: A Trip to Washington DC, Part One

Posted on June 12, 2023June 20, 2023 by Bill Hudson

Lily and Ursala — my two daughters — had been invited to Washington DC to participate with four other contemporary American Indian artists in a show entitled, “Sharing Honors and Burdens”…

Posted in Essays, Video

HMPRESENTLY: The Unique Language of Business

Posted on May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 by Harvey Radin

Like top 10 songs on music charts, certain words become top 10 favorites. Like the rather popular word… ‘stakeholders,’ for example…

Posted in Essays

HMPRESENTLY: Oldish but Goodish

Posted on March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 by Harvey Radin

I was behind the wheel of our aging, but delightfully functional vehicle. There’s something about old stuff that my crusty, old inner self truly appreciates…

Posted in Essays

HMPRESENTLY: Halting Procreation?

Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by Harvey Radin

I’ve had this thing about metrics, which, in business, supposedly serve as an indication, or a measurement, of performance…

Posted in Essays
ORIGINS: Beware the Ides of March

ORIGINS: Beware the Ides of March

Posted on March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 by Kim Elzinga

I’m not one to ignore the signals my body sends me, so I did what any relatively healthy, 63-year-old person without insurance would do…

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