Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Playing Golf As a kid, I must admit, I hated the game of golf. It seemed to me to represent the height of pretension, the type of self-centered jackassedness best embodied by Ted Knight in the seminal classic Caddyshack, and so I eschewed playing the sport until […]
I Love Me, I Love You, I Love Everything A lot of you enjoy the columns where I pick a topic of recent interest and just go off on someone or something, one of those eternal ravings I am occasionally known for where I am literally frothing at the mouth as I cast vitriol in […]
Tragedy Brings Us Together I must admit that I have never been a fan of organized religion. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with anyone believing whatever the heck they like. Shoot, you can put your faith in whatever crackpot religion floats your proverbial boat. We all have the right, after all, to be wrong. […]
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I Hear Guam is Nice This Time of Year Do you remember those old videos from the 1950’s in which schools went through regimented nuclear war training with students, teaching them how to huddle beneath their desks in the case of a nuclear attack? Yeah, they might want to bring those back. Because shit with […]
Non-Affirmative Action I seriously cannot believe I am about to type this sentence, but here it goes. I actually agree with a major policy decision of the Trump administration. Ok, there, I said it. Now please excuse me for a few moments. I think I need to go scour the stink off myself for the […]
Let Them Eat Cake Funny, when people mention a Colorado baker, they are usually referring to a shaggy dude wearing a tie-dye t-shirt and baggy pants who came here on vacation shortly after the state legalized marijuana in January of 2014 and then somehow never managed to leave. But in the case of this week’s […]
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 […]
