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Category: Essays
ESSAY: Bob’s Rhubarb Lounge
I read half a dozen poems, all of them exploratory in ways I couldn’t imagine, except as poems…
ESSAY: What I Learned by Being Foster Dad
This essay by Tim Wills appeared on Chalkbeat Colorado on August 29, 2022. The state of Maryland considered Marcus a runaway when he showed up READ MORE
ESSAY: Come Let Me Love You
Summer Phillips enjoyed an extraordinary, carefree life. She was Pagosa’s premier goldsmith, a masterful artist with a huge clientele…
POEM: Cause for Applause
Have you heard / that our universe / may be left-handed?
ESSAY: The Power and Presence of Water in Native American Myth and the Bible
In Hajíínéí the water guardians became angry at the Nílch’i Dine’é and sent a massive flood into the First World to punish them…
PHOTO ESSAY: Pagosa Celebrates Mardi Gras at Tennyson Event Center
The Tennyson Building Event Center is sending out a big “thank you” to all the fun-loving Pagosa people who turned out for their first ever Mardi Gras party…
ESSAY: The Warrior Woman
There are only 96 beds at the Craig Hospital and patients have to qualify to get in, but Summer was a shoe-in…
ESSAY: ‘Time’ vs. Pagosa Springs High School Girls’ Swim Team
In October, both the coaches and the athletic director of the school district were scrambling to find a pool, in order to save yet another season for this newly added sport…
ESSAY: The Legacy of John Porter
Besides being an avid sailor, a rough-and-tumble rugby player, an actor, producer, entrepreneur, expert skier, bon vivant and charming man-about-town, John was a dedicated and loving husband…
POEM: Moonlit World
When my woman talks it’s a symphony… Like a nightingale’s song she sings to me…
HMPRESENTLY: In Theory… and The Real Thing
That same morning, also very early, I happened to be out on the road, experiencing in real time what the psychologist had been talking about…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Pearl Harbor Day
They discussed the well-known story about the radar, and Dad got silent. One of the others said, “Larry, you’re a Pearl Harbor survivor. What do you think?”
HMPRESENTLY: Adventuring Across the Rubicon
If you could get peoples’ synapses to wrap around some nifty new service, or product, or, perhaps, a company’s good deeds, that was some seriously satisfying adventuring…
ESSAY: Inmates. Growing Sagebrush.
Levi says he’s never grown a plant from seed and found the experience therapeutic. “It’s nice to see something grow from nothing…”
A Standing Ovation for a Grand Dame
The couple settled in the charming borough of Beaver, PA, on the banks of the magnificent Ohio River…
HMPRESENTLY: Conversing in a Cockamamie State of Polarization
They’re like pixie dust, in a way… those three related words, all suggesting thoughtful, mutual, even casual talk among folks…
ESSAY: What’s Left of My Home Has Me Rethinking What I Teach, and How
This ‘First Person’ essay by Christie Nold appeared on Chalkbeat.org on November 17, 2021. What’s left of my home has me rethinking what I teach, READ MORE