Vilnius, Lithuania- Past 10pm, as the Baltic sun finally retreats over the horizon, the winding cobbled streets and yellow brick facades of the Old Town of Vilnius fades into a curious silence. It is not the silence of our little valley town, where the howl of coyotes and the occasional passing car on 133 punctuate […]
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Ps&Qs: One for Jim B.
Another good friend is gone. Jim Breasted was the coolest of the cool. We enjoyed talking about many subjects from hiking to history to dive bars in Aspen… but the one thing we would always circle back to, and agree on, is that they don’t make Republicans like they used to. Hell, I don’t think […]
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Russia-Ukraine crisis: beyond “good” and “evil”
Like many, I watched the news in horror and shock in the early morning hours of Feb. 24, to see the visceral uncertainty and chilling reigniting of the Cold War as Russian forces stormed the Ukrainian borders from all sides. After weeks of buildup, political rhetoric and international tension, that which had previously seemed unthinkable […]