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Peak Perspectives: The Landscape We Overlook

KRCC - Peak PerspectivesBy admin September 3, 2020 Leave a comment

*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 3, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Pikes Peak makes a nice head and shoulders, but we shouldn’t overlook the water-lifeblood that flows in our creeks.…

A Covid-induced summer at Manitou Beach

Colorado Springs GazetteBy admin August 30, 2020 Leave a comment

*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on August 30, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Most Sundays, pre-Covid, we’d be at our little church on Manitou Avenue. I’d grit my teeth through the service, gently coercing our two daughters to…