Cartoonist Drew Litton suggests that while the shootings at Club Q put another stain on Colorado, people can still counter the hate with love.
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Drew Litton: Tough market for humanity futures
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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What’d I Miss?: Conflating love and sex in popular culture
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 > More cartoons from The Colorado Sun
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Drew Litton: It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of…
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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Coronavirus stole traditions and passages. But we can let love — and the moon — connect us.
Today, I mailed a package to my daughter. She will soon be celebrating her first birthday since moving to New York City and she’ll spend it in isolation in her apartment. I also drove across town and dropped off a present for a friend who turned 79 today. I put the gift bag on the […]
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A psychic friend, a flirty phone salesman and a steady boyfriend: Where does love lie?
Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection, “This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.” and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her work appears in TriQuarterly, Glimmer Train, Electric Literature, Copper Nickel and elsewhere. She serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. An Ohio native, she […]
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Colorado author Jennifer Wortman compiled her short story collection around themes of love
Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection, “This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.” and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her work appears in TriQuarterly, Glimmer Train, Electric Literature, Copper Nickel and elsewhere. She serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. An Ohio native, she […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
I watched love bloom over Zoom. Beautiful things still happen.
When the quarantine began in Colorado, I forced myself to find one small silver lining—now I would have time to take a memoir and essay writing class that I’d been wanting to take for years. I work as a playwright and director in theater, and usually rehearsals and performances keep me busy. Now, of course, […]
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I’ve discovered “Love in the Time of Corona,” and hope these special moments endure
While my title is a play on the famous novel, “Love in the Time of Cholera,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, its theme of love is simpler. How can love grow in the very best of ways during this very difficult time in our lives? I live in Granby at 8,500 feet. We are transitioning to […]
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The coronavirus is stealing our summer. Somehow we must reclaim it.
Summers: If you get 75 of them in a lifetime, my mom used to say, you’re a fortunate soul. What she meant is that summer is what you live for. Summer is how you calculate your life’s continuum: by that joyous stretch of June, July, August. String those words together, you get “bliss.” (You might […]