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Big Mountain
July 17, 2023"The Unseen Beast" She sits atop a tree that lives on The Mountain, watching for anything that might sound good to eat. Her fluffy gray…
Fire and Wind
May 22, 2023Once I was his indentured servant, not his beloved son; he used to bark his demands like a drill sergeant requiring loyalty from his soldiers.…
Narcissism: Life in a Snow Globe
May 19, 2023In recent years I’ve been dealing with a narcissist in my life. I think most people know at least one person with narcissistic tendencies, so…
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…
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…
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…
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