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Notes from Brazil

The past eight months have easily been the most challenging but fulfilling of my life. I arrived in Brazil certain I was almost fluent in Portuguese, only to find I couldn’t understand a single sentence that was said to me. My self-confidence plummeted as I realized how severely unprepared I was. Exhausted after several delayed […]

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Literate Life: Wanna write a book?

I know you do. Everything changed in 2010. Patrons handed library staff their shiny Christmas present: Kindles. “Make them work!” Despite the many predictions of a paperless society, eBooks really hadn’t caught on. But suddenly it was possible to carry 15 or 20 or 100 books around with you in your preferred font type and […]

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The poop scoop

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column repetitiously employs a single expletive. Reader discretion advised. I tried to write this narrative in my head while picking manure this morning. That is when and where I always have the greatest clarity of thought. I should try to write or record while shoveling shit because I can never reproduce that […]

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Etta Louise Holgate

August 10, 1942 – January 27, 2025 Etta Louise Holgate, born August 10, 1942 in Brush, Colorado to Odie and Florence Cooper, was a Rebekah Lodge member in Carbondale, Colorado and a Near New Store volunteer. She passed away on Jan. 27 at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs. Etta married her husband, Charles Roger […]

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