*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 9, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “Elbert” is just a guy. Just some guy, who happens to be the namesake of Colorado’s highest Fourteener, all 14,440 feet of…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on May 13, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. If history is the study of what came before, a mud print makes a fine artifact. Especially in the Spring. Winter’s last…
*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 essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 31, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Nearly nothing is as core to the male psyche than the ability to start a good fire. It’s…