This is not your father’s “World Kissing Day” I spend a lot of time in Koelbel Library, a very nice facility in a suburb south of Denver. While I could blog at home, I prefer the library because it lacks two very tempting distractions: the...
When it finally quit going wrong Just good folks. That’s how I’d describe the 150 or so people, overwhelmingly Canadian, who attended our Reist/Archer family reunion near the little farming communities of Didsbury and Olds north of Calgary. Sure, there...
…except when it mattered. With a tip’o the hat to that rode-hard-put-away-wet cowboy crooner cum hippie, Willie Nelson, I’m: “On the road again, I just can’t wait to get on the road again . . . Goin’ places that I’ve never...
BRAHMAN BULL! Jim Lovell is one of three men that, for years, has led the Bible study that I attend on Wednesday mornings. Jim’s an interesting guy. He grew up on the Baptist buckle of the Bible belt of western Oklahoma. Somehow got to Denver where he joined...
And then you die? Did you see the recent stories and pictures of climbers stuck in a human traffic jam trying to get to the top of Mount Everest? I saw them while on my recent trip to Scotland and England. At least 11 people died attempting to scale Earth’s...