Loretta Gilbert, left, owned and operated a small assisted living residence in Colorado. She served on the Colorado Department of Health Assisted Living Advisory Committee. She lives in Colorado with her husband and much loved animals.Nancy Walker took care of her mother during the last 10 years of her life. Her background working for small […]
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Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns, Write On, Colorado
Essay: For Colorado transplants, coronavirus has made the distance from our families unbearable
I’ve lived in Colorado, some 1,700 miles away from my family, for more than a decade now. That means I know to hug my mom and dad and sister a little bit longer than a normal goodbye would warrant before I leave them. You never know what may happen. Eight years as a professional journalist […]
Posted inBook Excerpts, SunLit
Humanity and nature, mother and son, fulfillment and regret — a field guide
Emily Wortman-Wunder is an essayist and fiction writer, with recent work in the Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, Nimrod, High Country News, and elsewhere. “Not a Thing to Comfort You,” winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, is her first book. She teaches scientific writing at the University of Colorado Denver. The following is an excerpt […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: A strong paid family leave policy will help rebuild Colorado’s economy
Today, we celebrate Colorado dads from Denver to Pueblo to Grand Junction. No doubt fathers everywhere will receive some well-deserved gratitude, spend time with family and friends, and maybe even enjoy a delicious meal from the grill. But what about tomorrow and the day after? Tomorrow we’ll stop celebrating, and go right back to the […]
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Our family found routine during coronavirus. But we still needed to rediscover joy.
Parenting and working from home during the COVID-19 shutdown has felt just like Bill Murray’s classic movie “Groundhog Day.” We are living the same day, every day, with a few new choices peppered in for variety sans Murray’s zany antics. Each morning I attempt to tackle work and Zoom meetings while my four kids do […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
With life on hold, I packed up my RV and hurried home to Colorado
I have lived in the Roaring Fork valley of western Colorado for 42 years. I got my start as a coal miner at Snowmass Coal on Thompson Creek outside of Carbondale. In the mines you dealt with potential death every day. With the COVID-19 threat it is about the health and lives of loved ones […]
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Our family has never spent this much time together as adults. Here’s what coronavirus has taught me.
While this pandemic continues to plague our daily routines and change the way our lives look, it also has presented a chance to appreciate all those things we took for granted, or at least the things I took for granted before this tsunami hit. As I sit tight at home with my family, and we […]
Posted inHealth, News, Politics and Government
One in eight people struggle with infertility. Colorado lawmakers want insurance to cover treatment
When Tyler Wilson came home after his deployment in Afghanistan in 2005, he was paralyzed from the waist down. He had been shot four times and still had a bullet lodged in his spinal cord. Ten years later, when he and his wife, Crystal, decided to start a family, they needed medical assistance. But insurance […]