*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 29, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Grandma DeLone died last month, and in a moment of weakness, I thought about store-bought stuffing for Thanksgiving. Now I feel a little ashamed, because I — even…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on December 17, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Hey you with the green Colorado “Native” sticker — scape it off. It’s not cool. Where you were born is a geographical…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on November 19, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. I skipped Feb. 11 this year. Never had it. Not just me, but my wife too, aboard our plane as we flew…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on November 12, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Pandemic parenting’s no joke. But there’s still little bits of gold in this dark mineshaft that COVID has forced us into. That…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on November 5, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Do you remember the Lion and the Mouse? The fable comes from Aesop, a slave and storyteller that lived in ancient Greece.…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on October 29, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. It’s Halloween again, so what’re you afraid of? For me, it used to be the dark. I run in the early morning…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on October 22, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “The people who live in darkness have seen a great light.” So began one of our minister’s sermons this past winter.…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on October 15, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. A few weekends back, returning from Leadville, my family got stuck on Highway 24 near the tiny town of Hartsel. We…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on October 8, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Legendary science-fiction author Robert Heinlein (who wrote “Starship Troopers”) once lived near the Broadmoor on Mesa Avenue. In 1952, he wrote…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on October 1, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. If anything’s better than a kid’s first s’more, I don’t know what. Maybe a first kiss or that other “first time,”…