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The Great Nagurski’s Blocking Guard
March 30, 2023Alec Bobedash, the great Nagurski’sblocking guard, stands at the sternbent to raise the outboard motorover the sandy bottom ferns.The channel widens, bottom fallsaway. In northern…
Seeing the World
March 24, 20232017 Interview by Lucy Bell with WWII Veteran, Joe Morgan, Colorado Springs, CO Joseph Morgan Born June 8, 1926, Died July 15, 2019 Served in…
Three Little Words
March 21, 2023Starting with my dad, people have been telling me to Stand Up Straight all my life. He told me. The Army told me. My friends…
The Other Way from You
March 21, 2023I’d been told that some former Colorado Springs poets laureate were going to read at the old Knights of Columbus hall. Some of them were…
Bloodstream
March 14, 2023Karen was down to 100 pounds. She wore long sleeve shirts to work to hide the marks on her arms. It…Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Unjust Imprisonment of Channen Smith
March 13, 2023At about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, October 23, 2010, outside the residence of Brandon Savage (street name "Ghostface") at 1843…
One Missing Piece: The PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Outpatient Clinic
March 9, 2023Gary told me that he'd recently gotten accepted into the Veterans' Administration health care system, and how surprisingly painless that…
10 Things Instructors Need to Know about Student-Veterans
February 15, 2023Showing that you care can make or break the climate in your classroom. When they are motivated, student-veterans can be…
Vacant Lots: A Butterfly Hunter Considers the Sacred
February 15, 2023The simplest definition of “sacred” in the Oxford English Dictionary has always seemed to me to be “set apart,” and that’s probably…
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