*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 September 24, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. From March 1 to September 1, we averaged 860 American deaths to COVID-19 a day, double the death rate in World War…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 22, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. If all you’re hearing is bad news, then listen to Manitou Springs howl at eight o’clock each night. A few minutes ahead of schedule, say,…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 3, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The Greatest Generation saved the world. Now it’s our turn to save them. While fascism wreaked havoc across the globe during World War II, today’s…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 18, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The glass doors parted just enough for my side-body shimmy, then I squared my shoulders and double-timed it into the store, yanked a cart back,…