Elected officials are meeting with highway engineers to grapple with how to keep mudslides and rockfalls, caused by the Grizzly Creek fire scar, from shutting down the 12-mile Glenwood Canyon segment of Interstate 70. When Nature wreaked its canyon havoc, Garfield County Road 100, leading to Cottonwood Pass, was used by many as an unsanctioned […]
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Ps&Qs: Of monsters and men
Picture this: Cookie Monster sitting on a park bench looking out at the horizon and the thought bubble over his head reads: “Without my cookies, I’m just a monster.” That meme is exactly how I would describe politicians like Lauren Boebert; politicians who want to take away certain inalienable rights from their own constituents. I […]
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Letter from Michigan, ’22 (when “normal” maybe isn’t so normal)
Hello again, fellow Bondalers and Valley dwellers, from verdant, humid southwestern Michigan! Bonnie and I made it to our old stomping grounds a little later than usual but in time for a mostly great July 4 weekend here (see below). I can report that during the journey east through the Great Plains and Midwest things […]
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The Crystal Palace has fallen
My childhood home was built around a blue spruce in Aspen’s West End. It wasn’t a good climbing tree — its bark rough with budding pine needles, slathered in sap and opportunistic ants. Still, we struggled up the trunk, planning tree forts and pretending to be pirates peering out of our crow’s nest across the […]
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VívidaMente: Salud mental y finanzas
Dicen que la depresión es exceso de pasado, y la ansiedad es exceso de futuro, mientras que la paz radica en vivir en el presente. Vivir en el ahora, y tomar un día a la vez. Cuántas veces dejamos pasar periodos largos de nuestra vida preocupados por lo que ya fue y no podemos cambiar, […]
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Branching Out: What could be more important?
I assumed it was a sobriety check and downshifted. My truck was packed for camping and a bluegrass festival; I would drive through the night. Emergency lights split the darkness, spinning and flashing on a scene so horrific I gasped at the sight. A cow elk — her eyes wide, head thrown back — and […]