*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on April 29, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Have you ever wondered how the West was won? There’s really only one answer. By train. Civilization rode the rails into the American…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on April 22, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. I want to share a quote with you from an ad published in the New York Times in January of 1970. “On…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on April 15, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Really thick Scottish accents sound a little like gibberish to me. So recently while watching a travel show on Scotland, when the host kept…
*Note: This essay was published in the New York Daily News online edition on April 12, 2021. An image of the header to the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. One hundred years ago, Canada planned to invade America militarily. A century later, they may actually have done it through other means, and it’s…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 11, 2021. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. My first in-person church service in a year was this past Easter Sunday, a shaky blend of awkward joy that seemed to mark the next stage of society’s…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on April 8, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” I keep coming back to that quote recently…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on April 1, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Glance east while driving I-25 alongside downtown Colorado Springs. You’ll see a giant, white, sleek, futuristic bridge that’ll soon open to carry…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on March 25, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. You know that feeling when something catches your eye and everything stops? That recently happened to me at the Colorado Springs Pioneers…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on March 18, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. If Colorado Springs is all grown up now, what was it like as a baby? It grew fast. 150 years ago there…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 14, 2021. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. His nametag said “Dakotah,” and his help was like winning a little lottery. It was one of those pandemic days when the walls get tighter and the ceilings…