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“Where are you from?” I queried the older couple who just walked into the museum. “Well, we’re from Texas but we’re staying in Boulder, Colorado for three weeks.” “Are you visiting friends or family?” “No, we’re house-sitting some people’s house through Housecares.com.” Huh? With Colorado being a very desirable vacation…
Continue readingThe glow of the lights lit up the sky on what is otherwise a clear, cloudless night. Given that it is close to midnight, I find it surprising that our neighbor’s lights are still on. Being a night owl, I frequently will write or read until the wee hours of…
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For the rest of the world, everything seems normal again. There is no black and gray smoke billowing into the sky over Nederland, there are no flames shooting out of the trees. Our house looks exactly the same. Life goes on, right? I’m having a hard time talking with friends…
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It’s 6 a.m. on a cold and blustery Sunday morning in late January. By all rights, anyone in a sane frame of mind would be snug in their bed, sleeping deeply, covers pulled tightly up to their noses. But not in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado…. One look from high…
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