Category: Essays/Poetry

It was an arranged marriage. I hardly knew her, and I didn’t particularly like her. She was something of a compromise. Most certainly, it was not ‘love at first sight’…

Our cute (fake) Christmas tree is hung with ornaments collected over many years, and a small collection of gifts sits under the tree…

Our plumber showed the video evidence to PSSGID manager Gene Tautges, and got the Town’s approval to dig up the entire line…

“Bob, you shouldn’t be doing that kind of work,” I told him. “Hire someone to do it for you. A professional…”

“At the end of the day, there’s no romance without finance. We need some money to finance this; we’re going to need money to pay the consultants to do this work…”

In other words, DDM can analyze the tourists coming to Pagosa Springs and tell us, at some level of detail, what TV programs these visitors are watching at home…

Back in 2010, the 20-member Water Supply Community Work Group (WSCWG) published a comprehensive study of our community’s water needs…

The birds were singing when I woke this morning, and that’s a fact. I can’t tell you how many birds or what species, but I definitely heard birds singing…

What is an old house? Is it a capital investment meant to be sold, perhaps at a profit?

A scientist was explaining that the DNA coding that uniquely defines each individual human — or each individual dog, or cat, or earthworm — is made up of only four different amino acids strung together in a certain sequence…

Here in 2016, we have apparently lost the intellectual distinction, not only between ‘History’ and ‘Prehistory’ but also between fact and fiction…