*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 essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on January 28, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Recently, in announcing his transition away from sports to writing about local issues, Gazette columnist Dave Ramsey wrote…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 3, 2017. It can also be found online here. We’re now repeatedly reminded that Americans are intensely divided: a recent poll found “seven in 10 Americans say the nation’s political divisions are at least as big as during the Vietnam War” and a…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on October 16, 2017. It can also be found online here. While wearing my military uniform, I often hear a distant, direct, “thank you for your service.” It’s always appreciated, but, during a painfully long week, containing the aftermath of the tragedy in Las Vegas,…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on August 6, 2017. It can also be found online here. America is an angry place these days. Politics burn hot on both ends; cable news stokes the fire. Families choose sides, dividing the closest bonds. Arguments abound, and at times, that spirit of animosity…