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Quiet Desperation
I will never be recognized as the first to do anything. I wasn’t the first in my family to graduate from high school or college, or become a schoolteacher, or nothing. Unless you stretch it. I was …
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A few years ago, we all talked about the easy button. It was a meme before there was anything even known as a meme. There was an icon with a big red button that we all recognized without hesitation, …
Quiet Desperation
My father was born 100 years ago today as I write this. There hasn’t been a day since he died in 2008 that I haven’t thought about him, and more this day than usual simply because of the …
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An employed entrepreneur? How can that be? I mean, we are either employed or we are an entrepreneur, right? The answer is yes. This is because most successful entrepreneurs will share that even …
Winning Words
Happy new year! Over the years, especially at the new year, I have found myself focusing on the things I want to start doing in the coming year that will help me achieve success when it comes to the …
Quiet Desperation
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Letters to the Editor
Up to interpretation? Regardless of whether you support gun control or not, it appears that the Douglas County policy is the most unclear and potentially overreaching when comparing views between …
Senator effective, bipartisan Sen. Gardner has been characterized as “not doing anything” for Colorado. Actually, he has done a lot for us. I was most impressed with Ambassador Nikki Haley …
One extreme to another The sad saga of George Shipley and the barking dog once again highlights the extreme spectrum of effectiveness an HOA can operate in. On one hand, back in the 1990s, we had the …
Will he do right thing? Sen. Cory Gardner has been largely mum about his views on the impeachment trial that is being planned by the Senate. A recent news article reported Gardner’s comment that …
Thank you After noting the absence of a Toys for Tots effort in Castle Pines Village last year, a couple of Marines teamed up with Louie Lee, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker, to reinstitute the …
A fund worth helping Colorado Gives day is now past and this is a good time to recognize the local Hearts and Hands Fund while the bookkeepers are busy adding up Gives Day donations. Perhaps not well …
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