Happy New Year! Dear gods, please let us turn it around in 2026… I think we can all agree that when Trumpty Dumpty finally falls off the wall, it’s going to take all of us to put this country back together again. I used to think that there was a basement level standard for U.S. […]
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Ps & Qs: Pro-life for the planet
This column is dedicated to Paul Weyrich and the nuns. One of my biggest fears is instant reincarnation. When people have a near-death experience, they often report seeing a light at the end of a tunnel. But what if that light is the fluorescent bulb in the delivery room, and boom! — you’re on to […]
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Ps&Qs: America is worth more than the sum of its parts
First, I want to say thank you to Donald Trump. No, seriously, I want to thank him for taking the time to come back and kill our pretense of a democracy. While we were all limping around, our bleeding hearts liberally coloring the snow red, Trump came back with an old rusty hammer and sickle […]
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Ps&Qs: Signal the ski patrol
Did you read Roger Marolt’s column in the Aspen Daily News last month about his breakup with Aspen? It’s very good, and relatable for anyone who has lived and loved in our favorite local ski town. I can understand how hard it is to watch the place you love invaded by day trippers; America was […]
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Ps & Qs: Confusing net worth with self-worth
We are living a truth stranger than fiction. I didn’t even question it when I saw a man dressed like Ignatius J. Reilly crossing Highway 82 the other day, complete with matching plaid pants, jacket and hunting cap — ear flaps down. He carried himself with an ignorant level of confidence, crossing as the signal […]
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Ps & Qs: Institutionalized
Boomers say Millennials have no respect for America’s institutions, e.g. Congress, POTUS, the Supreme Court. I say, who can blame them? America’s most hallowed halls have all been corrupted by corporate interests. It’s high time to cut the puppet strings between our government and the lobbyists who pull them.Like most GenXers, I suspect, I’m just […]
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Ps & Qs: Where have all the plumbers gone?
There’s a time and a place for everything; it’s called college. I loved college. Well, what I remember of it anyway … Even though I never graduated, I owe quite a bit of my ken to those formative years. Like many college students, I had to work to pay my bills while I was in […]
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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: 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 […]