Category: Essays/Poetry

Schools had government-mandated prayers, and biology classes didn’t mention evolution. Buying a cocktail or lottery ticket was a crime. Birth control was illegal in some states…

Sometimes, it’s some way something’s said by someone. Or, it’s words in a song, a poem… or news and commentary…

But even when we’ve had heavy snowfall up in the mountains, for one reason or another, in past years, annual snow survey results have been disappointing…

For days, 2.5 million residents in Texas were left without power, killing at least 17 people…

Advertising executives liked to emphasize the substantial number of impressions their ad campaigns were generating…

And we’re wondering, considering the possible presence, and all, if our house, in some way, can sense what’s happening….

Just the word, itself, of course, means something is good. Maybe really, tremendously, fantastically good…

When it comes to spending money, I’m cautious. And that’s okay, I’ve always believed. But I was overdoing it, I discovered…

Why post broadsides on bulletin boards, when we have a community website, and we can also blast-email folks, to keep them informed? I’ll tell you why…

The rhythmic recitation by poet Amanda Gorman at the inauguration, her words counterpointed by her twirling hands, awoke a pleasant rush of what the Buddhists call sympathetic joy…

“But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated…”

Together, as we look toward Colorado’s future, we have an opportunity to re-imagine what it can become…

So, giving in and signing up, back then… there I was, with the opportunity to connect with “the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful,” according to a description of the website…

We need skilled and determined leadership to initiate a national conversation of formal reparations for both recent and historical damages…

Love is the only force strong enough to be the unifying energy that ties our broken country back together. Hate can’t do it. Hate and fear have polarized us. We need to choose…

The nightmare I was having was like a storyboard… like the images people in the movie business draw up, so they can visualize their motion pictures…

Things had been going downhill, for many of the working families in Pagosa Springs, well before the coronavirus arrived on the scene…