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When it was all said and done, my husband spent six weeks in the miserable land of the injured. A world many of you know is filled with extreme pain, a dizzying dosage of painkillers, crutches that leave the armpits raw, and that depressing feeling of will I ever get my normal life back? Thank […]

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 the scene —  the president of France. […]

First off, thanks to editor Will Grandbois for seeing the need and allowing for a different voice than we usually see in The Sopris Sun. Consequently, we now have Mutt and Jeff, a couple of local yokels, to address the issue. On today’s poisonous political spectrum we would undoubtedly be described as extreme or radical […]

The Sopris Sun is officially award winning. In our first trip to the Colorado Press Association convention last weekend, we were some of the loudest and most obnoxious cheerers as we nabbed three top spots in our size category. Photographer Jane Bachrach took home one first place for her overall photo portfolio and another for […]

It completely snuck up on me — Shortsfest, that is. In addition to being one of the myriad film fests that help make the Valley’s arts scene so vibrant, it represents a sort of anniversary for me: covering Shortsfest 2017 was my first “special to The Sopris Sun.” Since then, of course, my byline has […]

Recently I spoke in Carbondale and Aspen about restoring the gray wolf to the public wildlands of western Colorado. Some have claimed that my presentations were misleading. They were not. I stuck to reliable facts and concluded with an important truth: coexisting with wolves is a straightforward affair. This is hard for some to accept. […]

I subscribe to The Borowitz Report because the only way I can absorb the news these days is through satire. And now it arrives with a disclaimer: Not the news. This is the world we live in. A world “where ‘stop shooting our kids’ is seen as a liberal talking point by the pro-life crowd.” […]

If I awakened to find that my older husband had died during the night, I was supposed to call Amy Barr. Those were her instructions, and I knew that she could glue the pieces of me back together again. Dawn Mulally, a friend and a former United Way board member, had the same confidence. “If […]

So the other day I dropped into Target. That place is dangerous. I need some special superhuman powers just to go in there and come out feeling good about myself. I don’t know how many times I’ve gone in for a few items — say a phone charger and some toothpaste — and come out […]

There’s big energy on the move. In mid-March, Mars ingresses into Capricorn, joining Saturn in the Goat’s sign. The copresence of these two planets in this sign will not go unnoticed, and Mars’ two-month transit will only invigorate the already heavy tenor. Capricorn is an earth sign, and perhaps more accurately, an earthmover. Capricorn’s strengths […]