The Freedom to Tell Others What to Do In last week’s installment of TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I promised you, my loyal readers, a two-part explanation of why I felt compelled to move from my current home in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch to an abode in the foothills West of town. […]
Qdoba, Starbucks, Target. Repeat. When I moved from Breckenridge to Highlands Ranch, Colorado, a remarkable phenomenon started to occur. People stopped coming to visit. Back in the days when I lived in the scenic Victorian enclave right at the base of the mountain resort that consistently logs more skier visits than any other ski area […]
The Attention Span of a Goldfish Awhile back, I wrote an installment of TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less on the topic of the continual and pervasive migration of people to Denver, Colorado, the place I’ve called home since 1999. Shortly after publishing that column, I received a comment from a realtor friend of mine […]
Making Someone Your Bitch, Literally…. You ever see something out in public that is simply so disconcerting that you just have to avert your gaze and hope that the recurring image doesn’t haunt your dreams for the next several weeks? And no, in this case, I am not referring to the corpulent woman you know […]
Moonlighting in La La Land Admittedly, I am often late when it comes to the Oscar party. By that, I am not suggesting that I even watch the Oscars themselves. I’m sorry Hollywood, but I have no use for a self-indulgent love fest that strokes the ego of a bunch of narcissists consumed by their […]
Bag Your Own Damn Groceries (and other pet peeves) So the other day I was in the grocery store trying to pick up a few last-minute items to make dinner before picking up my kids from school. Even in the late afternoon, a time I had erroneously assumed would be relatively quiet since most people […]
Political Correctness- It’s All Greek to Me Any of you happen to remember Jimmy the Greek? Now not much more than a footnote in the annals of sports history, James Snyder was once a legendary sports broadcaster best known for his work on the CBS Sunday morning show NFL Today where he would provide prognostications […]
The Republican Party Has No Soul Over the last two decades, we have all witnessed the discernible dissolution of the integrity and morality of the political sphere. Often that erosion has been so incremental in nature as to seem vague and uncertain in its progress, but then something unbelievable happens, and the shift seems seismic […]
This week in TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I am going to be completely up front with you right from the onset: Some of you are going to be raging pissed at me this week. Even some of my regular TRUTHERS out there, the real die-hards, even some of you are going to cringe […]
Get What You Deserve In last week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I came to a startling revelation: Professional athletes make way too much money. I know, truly groundbreaking journalism, but I like to think we also examined some of the fiscal ramifications of these exorbitant salaries for grown men playing sports. Perhaps we […]
