Two Sheriffs

Wednesday, Sept 27th: Duane Morrison entered Platte Canyon High School near Bailey, Colorado around noon and took six female high school students hostage. Armed with two pistols, the gunman only took the young girls hostage, telling the male high school students to leave the classroom. He eventually released four of the girls, but as police SWAT units stormed the classroom where he was holed up, he killed one of the girls, a sixteen year old junior named Emily Keyes, and then shot himself. Read on …

Bright Yellow

Thursday, Oct 19th: To see the aspens in all their glory, I drove up to two areas: Rocky Mountain National Park and the US 285 corridor from Conifer to Grant. It has been a beautiful fall season in Colorado, especially after that period of rain and cool temperatures in September and that freak early snow storm in October in the mountains. Read on …

Man of Peace

Sunday, Sept 17th: The Dalai Lama gave a public talk today at the Pepsi Center in front of a sold out crowd of 15,000. Preceeded by Tibetan dancers and the Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog, the Dalai Lama emphasized the importance of peace, compassion, and inter-faith dialogue. On Friday and Saturday, he took part in the PeaceJam conference of Nobel Laureates at the University of Denver. Last in Denver nine years ago, the Dalai Lama (at the age of 70) is the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India. Read on …

End of the Day

Friday, Sept 1st: On August 31st, Colorado State Parks bought some property from my family that has been with us for 35 years. Eighty acres in size, the property has a rustic 1870’s era log cabin on it. Located near Conifer on US 285, the Parks were interested in the property largely because it will enable them to build a road, thereby skirting a nearby subdivision, and link up the two major sections of Staunton State Park, a proposed 3,500 acre state park less than an hour from Denver. I was lucky enough to live in the log cabin for three years recently, and I swear I shared that space with an unearthly creature known as Harvey, the giant invisible rabbit and stalwart bar hopper. Read on …