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Water Works
I feel sorry for the squirrels living in the upper reaches of the towering cottonwood tree in my backyard. One of their favorite pastimes is staging raids on each others’ nests and then running down the massive trunk as one…
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Happy Feet
My high school track career came to an end on the second day of practice, with a well-timed but poorly acted sprawl across the roots of a tree. I didn’t have to fake the hobbling because both of my knees…
Read moreA Parent’s Final Frontier
The other day, I came downstairs to find the timer on the oven blaring, announcing for who-knows-how-long that dinner was beyond ready. My teenage son sat 10 feet away, watching a Nuggets game on TV, oblivious. His only reaction was…
Read moreBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
The must sublime scene in the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove is not the dramatic and heart-wrenching footage that the film leads up to with every frame. It’s a scene in which the filmmakers and their team of elite activists…
Read moreEvents: Greg Campbell at Boulder Bookstore
Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds has a new book out this month, entitled Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History. Greg, who also happens to be a freelancer for YS, will be at the Boulder Bookstore next week,…
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