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Don’t kid yourself

Don’t kid yourself

It seems in just a week since I wrote my last column, that the world is becoming an even scarier place. I’m talking about the coronavirus. Yes, I’m serious. This is something I know about. I studied this for my profession, and I believe it has every bit of possible...
Don’t kid yourself

Version 2.0 is sometimes better

There’s an expression that we’ve all heard that has more meaning for me now than ever before in my life. It’s “watching from the sidelines.” I was never a person who did much of that. I was always in the mix of things and never really had an off button. Whether...
Don’t kid yourself

How big do they make bark collars?

Sometimes, when I sit down to write this column, I’ve got a whole lot of pent up thoughts that I’m just waiting to pour out onto the page. Sometimes, just one simple word is stuck in my head and that makes me build an entire column around it. Today is more of the...
Don’t kid yourself

How is that empowerment?

I’m sitting here listening to 97.3 WKBCO from Denver while I’m writing. The reason is that this was “my” radio station while I lived in Colorado. And the primary DJ’s have been on it since I started listening to it in 1996. Imagine, the same people have been on it for...
Don’t kid yourself

Pancakes aren’t a political platform

It might surprise you to know that I do most of the cooking in our house. It’s something I like to do, and it offers me the opportunity to experiment a lot. Because we eat vegetarian (well, pescatarian, since we eat seafood), it means I have to come up with a lot of...