In “What’d I Miss?” Myra, who survived a long coma, considers how living a healthy life for loved ones means more than the romantic notion of dying for them.
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Nicolais: My cousin Matt died last week and must now be in Neverland
My cousin Matt died last Saturday. He is the first in this generation of my family to pass away, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it all week. I looked up to Matt when I was young. His mother and my mother shared a bond closer than any of my other […]
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What’d I Miss?: How do you measure a life well lived?
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | Next >
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SunLit Interview: Poet Carol Guerrero-Murphy’s urgency moved her to self-publish
Carol Guerrero-Murphy has a significant history of publishing while teaching creative writing from preschool through graduate levels in southern Colorado. She is semi-retired, writing and teaching in the Adams State Prison College Program and is affiliate faculty in the Western Colorado University MFA creative writing program. She is a professor emerita from Adams State University […]
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SunLit Excerpt: The prose poems of “Bright Path, Dark River” meditate on family life and death
Spring Tea Time, 4 o’clock We sit in the west courtyard. We chat about the times we have nearly died over our long lifetimes. Death is a tossed stone. Memory is a pool. The melanoma incident. The two bloody births. The numerous fatal car accidents mitigated or avoided. The angioplasty. Open heart surgeries. Several resistant […]
Posted inCrime and Courts, News
Colorado woman, teen die after two vehicles collide on I-70
GOVE COUNTY, Kan. — A teen girl and a woman from Colorado died after their vehicles collided on Interstate 70 in western Kansas on Saturday and several other people were hurt. The Kansas Highway Patrol said Christina Satana of Pueblo, Colorado, was driving the wrong way in the eastbound lanes of I-70 in Gove County […]
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Coroner wants to do metal testing on mummified cult leader’s body found in Colorado
A coroner in southern Colorado has not yet been able to determine what caused the death of a spiritual leader whose mummified body was found decorated with Christmas lights and glitter in what appeared to be a shrine. Saguache County Coroner Tom Perrin told The Denver Post he doesn’t know when Amy Carlson’s autopsy will be finished […]
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Woman who hit deer killed after being hit by another vehicle
A woman who hit a deer while driving south of Denver was hit and killed by another vehicle after getting out of her vehicle and at least nine people were injured on Monday, authorities said. The crashes happened on southbound Interstate 25 near Castle Rock at around 1 a.m. The woman was thrown into the […]
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Pritchett: You’re going to die. So now what are you going to do about it?
My position on death? I’m against it. That said, I will concede I lose that argument, and that moreover, my opinion has never even mattered. Die I will. And I am not alone in this — you will die, too. After all, death, darn it, just happens. Globally, about 65 million people die each year, […]
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Independent review faults Aurora police for stop preceding Elijah McClain’s death, subsequent investigation
Aurora police officers were too quick in their decision-making when they stopped Elijah McClain in 2019 in an encounter that preceded his death, according to an independent review of the fatality. And then investigators did a poor job of documenting the incident, the report solicited by the city says. “The post-event investigation was flawed and […]