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What makes humans decent and kind? Is it a big city vs. small town thing? Urban vs. rural? What makes us walk right past someone without even seeing them? Sure, there are more people crammed together in urban areas, but … Continue reading →

Her phone had been ringing, cutting off the music she was blaring, but she’d hit ignore every time it started again. Kelly’s excuses could wait. It was fifty miles or so to the first decent size town. She made for … Continue reading →

Once she hit the black top, she’d slowed some and burned the edge off her fury. Mel wasn’t going to turn around this time. She’d done that too many times before. Just keep driving, that’s what she told herself. The … Continue reading →

Riding up was very fall like with leaves on the ground, icicles in the crick clinging to sticks over little deep pools, and that smell, so difficult to describe, dirt and decaying leaves and, well, fall. The leaves had mostly … Continue reading →

There was a bright object in the sky-high and to the east of the big peak. I thought it was a planet until it began to move. It traveled from southeast to northwest steadily for several minutes. I figured it … Continue reading →

The dust trail following her pick-up enveloped everything behind her, like driving through one world and into another. Mel knew she should slow down, but the anger drove her foot onto the peddle. Had the floor under the gas been … Continue reading →

I want to thank all of you who made a donation to support Make-a-Wish Colorado through the Trailblaze 2019 event that Elaine and I took part in. The weekend is one neither of us will soon forget. We gathered for … Continue reading →

America is not a Gun America is mountains, prairies, and oceans. America is a people with courage with joy with its share of sadness and shock. America is cities, towns, and rural populations. America is community with pot lucks with … Continue reading →

Do you find that certain groups of people are simply more down-to-earth and friendly? Not caught up in who has what, but more concerned with catching up, helping when needed, providing hospitality? When we travel to antique engine shows, the … Continue reading →

What is it about the sound of water that attracts us? The waves crashing to shore on rocks and beaches, the mountain stream rushing over everything swollen with the melting snow, the smaller crick trickling down through meadows and over … Continue reading →