Commentary

Nibbles: Talkin’ ‘Bout My (Aging) Generation

March 24, 2010 Like 5 John Lehndorff

Whenever there’s a societal problem in the U.S. it’s popular to blame the baby boomers. We’re one big, easy target. Google “blame the baby boomers” and you’ll see more than 406,000 results. Now we’re being labeled as the major culprits…

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Farmsteads and Farmville

March 17, 2010 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I was never attracted to the idea of being a farmer, even though amber waves of grain flow through my blood. But the farm-fresh revolution—which has hit local menus, shops, bookstores and markets—is now rocking my world. I’ve begun craving…

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No More Light At the End Of Moffat Tunnel

February 16, 2010 Like 1 James Burrus

Derailing the Ski Train that pulled skiers from Denver to Winter Park and back for 69 years is a big F-U from the rail transportation industry in general. The rich and powerful monopolies that own and dictate the use of…

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A Mother’s Milk

January 6, 2010 Like 0 James Burrus

Mom knew it was good stuff—she’s a CU (Ski-U) grad, after all. So every year following my first high at age 6, a jones for the white stuff would start around Thanksgiving and peak about the time hockey games broke…

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Notes: Imagine the Possibilities

January 6, 2010 Like 1 Andra Coberly

Stephanie, the one female student in the small class, was reading aloud when I walked in and took a seat at a large table along with six students. Despite the interruption, she plugged away, scooping words off the page like…

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Pine Away

December 3, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

When I was a kid, I knew it was Christmas when after going to church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my parents loaded up my brother, Danny, and I (and later David) into the blue, ’60s vintage Buick Skylark station…

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Dear Santa…

December 3, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

There are a lot of things I’d like for my >INSERT APPROPRIATE SECULAR HOLIDAY HERE< gift this year. So, I decided the fair thing to do would be to list them all here, so my legions of readers and fans…

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Everything’s Coming Up Pink

December 3, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I thought the Paris Hilton fad was done. I thought we were over her, and by “we,” I mean whoever found her worthy of attention in the first place. I thought it was now uncool to dislike her, passé even.…

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Thumbin’ It

November 12, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Hitchhiking has always been good to me, but I can’t say the same for a certain drunk who once rolled in an early ‘70s Opel GT. His car was on the verge of a coronary; it was merely fate that…

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