PEAK TO PEAK - In October of 2024 I wrote a piece for my column titled You Should Buy a Gun. (https://www.themtnear.com/stories/diversions-you-should-buy-a-gun,20891) I suggested three reasons to buy a gun. The first was to send a message to MAGA...
NEDERLAND - As school lets out and backpacks get shoved into closets for a well-earned break, many parents start thinking about sunscreen, camping trips, and late bedtimes. But there’s something else worth packing for summer adventures: your...
in almost every conversation I’ve had with people around town over the last week there’s been mention of the rain everyone is complaining about the weather saying they wish for sun they wish for heat they are tired of the clouds and the...
TUNGSTEN VALLEY - Last month we tackled the Case of the Red-Light Desert UFO, where a pulsating red glow lit up the site of a then-secret California desert stealth-plane radar test range all night, terrorizing the range’s lone security person. The...
After I returned home from Hygiene, Colorado, I spent time self-reflecting and contemplating the ways I could find true happiness once again. I considered the red string theory, a theory that suggests there's an invisible red thread connecting...
there’s some program in which chosen poets have a chance to write a poem that is engraved on a rocket or some such space faring thing and is sent into the sky beyond our planet to float in the blackness and one day perhaps be read by alien eyes or...
NEDERLAND - In the cozy mountain town of Nederland, Colorado, where the winds carry stories and snow, a group of parents and caregivers spent this school year doing something powerful: learning how to raise emotionally intelligent children...
The Carousel of Happiness for my kids, Joe & Emi and for Scott Harrison and the seasons they go round and round/ and the painted ponies go up and down/ we’re captive on the carousel of time/ – Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game In Joe’s...
there’s a crumpled tissue in the middle of the hiking trail flitting slightly in the wind like the petals of a false flower I see it from far away this bit of white breaking up the spring landscape colors this little litter left in the dirt I...
NEDERLAND - The annual bird migration is well into full swing these days, with upwards of millions of birds visible on nightly weather radar as they traverse the skies above. Each passing week brings more and more species to their summer...
driving down the canyon is like fast forwarding time jumping through the ends of the long mountain winter and right into late spring where the tulips have already come and gone and the lawns are ankle high and shining green the mountains are...
Effervescent Gemini is at the center of the stars. The twins, champions of neuroplasticity, enliven our mind and brain. Lucky Jupiter has been in intelligent sign for a year. On...
TUNGSTEN VALLEY - With our weather heating up in another CO2-driven climate-change season and Wildfire Awareness Month, we’ll soon be battling wildland fires. What’s the status of Peak to Peak firefighting preparedness? The first line of defense...
HYGIENE - When we met at Rabbit Mountain in my last Discover Colorado column, I mentioned I had much I wanted to confess to you, my dear reader. Today, I will start with the small details of a very long confession. First, however, I will...
maybe we’ve got ghosts all wrong because once somebody’s gone I’ve never seen them again but I am still here thinking on how everything’s different now haunting the same places we all used to go remember when we all went through the car wash twice...
I got a letter years ago from a man who said he liked the poetry I write that he hasn’t ever liked poetry because it always makes things more complicated than they are but that my poems about living in the mountains about working with my...
LONGMONT There is so much I wish to confess to you, my dear reader. However, all shall be revealed in due course. In the meantime, let’s clear our heads at the Rabbit Mountain Open Space at the easternmost point of the foothills in the underrated...
in the basement is the water heater it is new and is a dull grey and was just put in by my friend who is a plumber our old one was broken and for months we suffered short showers and shivering exits into cold air it is the end of the day now and I...
BOULDER COUNTY - We are incredibly blessed to enjoy such an abundant variety of wildlife in our little slice of Rocky Mountain paradise. As the weather warms, that variety increases with a number of species making their way into the high country...
people are dying in the hospital next door to the quick stop but right now we are alive and I need gas and so we stop and get the snacks that we know will kill us and the stuff that makes...