When I was ten years old my best friend, Allie, and I would wake up early on Sunday mornings to watch FMTV on Channel 12.
It was a local show featuring music videos from artists like David Byrne and Blondie. Then Channel 12 sold the… read more →
Stuff by Jeannie Perry
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Apr. 3, 2019
PS&QS: MTV started it all
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Mar. 6, 2019
Cute as a monster in a shed
A couple of weeks ago I was walking with my dogs on a remote snow-packed road and I encountered some other people recreating in the woods. As they passed us, a young man (they’re all young these days) yelled at me, “Get your dogs out of here!”
“I… read more →
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Jan. 2, 2019
Ps & Qs: Another year of DINK living
Do you know what a DINK is? It stands for Double Income No Kids.
And if you think about it, you probably know a DINK— or two. A lot of my friends are DINKs, for various reasons, and I think it’s about time we recognize… read more →
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Dec. 5, 2018
Ps&Qs: Festivus for the rest of us
When I was a kid, Basalt and El Jebel were two completely different towns, and you had to go to Aspen or Glenwood for any kind of shopping; seasonal or otherwise.
In fact, El Jebel was barely a town, it was more of a roadside… read more →
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Oct. 31, 2018
Ps&Qs: Life is like a Mexican train ride
The older I get, the more I realize life is like the train ride I took from Nogales to Mazatlán during Spring Break, 1991.
Everyone starts out with high hopes and expectations, clean clothes, and dreams of the amazing adventure ahead. There are new people to… read more →
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Oct. 3, 2018
Ps&Qs: The hamster-led, pumpkin spiced revolution
Fall is a wonderful season.
That nearly-dead-but-not-yet feeling of: warm days and cool nights, beautiful tapestries on the mountainside, and the pumpkin spiced deluge whenever we leave the house. Americans are extremely busy this fall; there’s barely time to stop and smell the rotting rose… read more →
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Sep. 5, 2018
Ps & Qs: A weekend with my Uncle Chas
They say, “if you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough.”
My mother’s family, the Moores, are Irish. And that’s exactly how I feel about my uncle Charlie; if you’re lucky enough to know him, you’re lucky enough. He has always been there for… read more →
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Jul. 4, 2018
Ps & Qs: Land of the caged
The Trump administration started separating children from their parents at the border and relocating them while their parents await trial for seeking refuge.
The immigration courts in this country are moving at the speed of smell, and even if they could manage to find and… read more →
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Jun. 6, 2018
Ps & Qs: The Rizzo years
The other day my husband asked if a little alien creature was going to pop out of my gut, like in that ’80s movie starring Sigourney Weaver.
“I’m perimenopausal” I told him, “and it’s an early stage, so buckle up; you could be in for… read more →
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May. 2, 2018
Ps & Qs: Born in Aspen, but we still need to work for a living
Oh, my gods, did you hear Emmanuel Macron’s speech?! I should have guessed! This whole ordeal of having a president with the ego of a small child, and a slack-ass nanny of a congress, has all been a plot to make us fall for the first responder on… read more →
