My horoscope said I may be experiencing an “existential crisis” this week. Nailed it. Luckily, it’s not a permanent condition, and according to the stars, should clear up by the weekend… After a natural disaster we often see people who have just lost everything wandering around with a disbelieving look on their faces, searching for […]
Jeannie Perry
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Change your perspective, change your life
In the words of John Hughes, master movie maker, “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” A wise man recently reminded me that my life is like a movie, and it’s up to me to decide what kind of movie I’m making. In my […]
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More than the world, she was the sun we three planets orbited
In 1979, Mom packed me and my two little sisters in her old Datsun and we hit the road. With pit stops, it took us two days to drive from Woody Creek to Denver, and we camped for the night on Independence Pass. We were a unit. We were secure in the nest. We knew […]
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Enough war for a lifetime
I’ve had enough. I’m sick and tired of having to pony up more money to support things like libraries, schools, libraries in schools… I pay taxes and that is where I want the money to go, not to the military industrial complex. “Today in Capitalism” by Iraq Veterans Against the War “Hey Siri, what is […]
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Ps&Qs: You can afford to share the pie
These days people say to me, “It’s too bad you can’t write about the president anymore, what with the political climate being so volatile.” While it is my dream to be the Ann Coulter of the Left, the truth is, it isn’t the volatile political climate that keeps me from writing about our pussy-grabber-in-chief. Because […]
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Ps&QS: Middle-aged rash guard
I had a rash on my arms and legs that lasted for months. At first, I thought it was a reaction to the president; my body physically rejecting the idiocracy. But I started to notice a correlation to food. Just the base of the food pyramid: bread, pasta, rice, soy… then the kale salad incident […]
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Ps & Qs: Close to the bone
I like to live close to the bone— or as my cousin says, “suck the marrow outta that shit!” I have a very real aversion to becoming plastic; both in the figurative sense of being disingenuous, and in the literal sense of ingesting plastic particles. “A new Australian study has found people ingest an average […]
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Using selfies to defeat blind patriotism
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” -Edward Abbey Aah, the Fourth of July: independence, freedom, hamburgers, hot dogs, flags waving over children separated from their parents and kept in cages. What is happening right now in this country is hard to believe, and easy to ignore, especially when […]
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WTF? Have aliens hired Congress to prank us?
The world seems so whacked right now. And yet, every day I wake up, go to work, walk the dogs, and check my inbox — only to get distracted by amazing deals on leggings… remember when we wore real pants? Remember when our president knew how government worked? Remember when WTF meant Welcome to Fruita? […]
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The opposite extremes of Uber experience
I have ordered an uber ride twice in my life, and I believe I’ve experienced the spectrum of Uber. The first time, I needed a ride from downtown Denver to Longmont (approximately 40 miles) and I became fast friends with the woman who gave me a ride. I sat in the front seat and we […]