Mike Pence won’t endorse Trump for president — it’s like Darth Vader standing up to the Emperor! Is it because Trump tried to have him hanged on the steps of the Capitol? Fair enough. I’ve held a grudge over much less … So, I guess the question is, will the GOP split in half like […]
Jeannie Perry
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Ps & Qs:The story of place
Here is one version of how the story goes … Kate Lindvig was a mail-order bride from Denmark who got off of the train in Nebraska to meet her new husband, took one look around and got right back on the train — headed west. She made her way to Aspen, where she ran a […]
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Ps & Qs: This one’s for you, Brad
When I was in college, my sister and I went skydiving with one of my roommates. We drove out to a field near Longmont where a Vietnam veteran gave us a quick four-hour session on the dos and don’ts of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. We avoided going tandem on our very first […]
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Ps&Qs: Peace over profit
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” – Nietzsche These days, I start my day with a cup of coffee, a little good intention and, inevitably, uncontrolled sobbing. It’s the humans that get […]
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Ps&Qs: Good vibrations
On my mom’s fourth deathday (like a birthday without the gifts), I went by the Third Street Center to drop off winter coats I had collected the night before at Ladies Wine Night. As I walked into Third Street with a big pile of Glamour Do’s, I wasn’t sure what I would find. All I […]
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Ps and Qs: A.I.
I’ve got a question for ya; how old is the term “bucket list”? Okay two questions, did a GenXer invent it? The internet is all in a tizzy trying to determine if the guy who wrote the movie “The Bucket List” (starring Morgan Freeman) invented the term, but I could swear I heard it long […]
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The last time I saw Rob Lowe
When I was a kid, my sisters and I would ride our bikes endlessly around Sopris Village in El Jebel. Our dad lived there, and it was like sci-fi Nancy Drew because it was this suburban “village” surrounded by miles and miles of empty fields: no City Market shopping center, no Movieland, nothing to do […]
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Ps&Qs: Listen up, chuckleheads — 1 kid > all the guns
I like the movie “Barbie” so much that I went to see it twice at the Crystal Theatre. The more I think about it, Carbondale is kinda like Barbieland: every day is a good day, the town mothers have the final say, and the men can cry in public (at events like kids’ soccer games […]
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Ps & Qs: The slow lane to Enlightenment
Editor’s note: This throwback was initially written 15 years ago. As I sat in my little Easy-Bake Oven of a Subaru on Highway 82 the other day, I managed to switch my attitude from negative to positive. I have been working on spontaneous attitude adjustment for some time now, as anyone who runs into me […]
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Ps & Qs: Carbondale’s makeover
Carbondale has good bones. This is part of the problem. The ultra-wealthy have been buying up all the land around, while the rest of us play frogger in traffic all day just trying to pay the bills. And, the worst part, they buy raw land and then give it a mani/pedi … What is with […]