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Susan Richards is a retired editor who will tell you old editors never die, they just revert to type.

• Words fail

  By Pied Type on April 16, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

• Photographic evidence

  By Pied Type on April 12, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

• Springtime in the Rockies

  By Pied Type on April 9, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  The high today in Denver was 78°. A blizzard warning has been posted for tomorrow.

• Release the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

  By Pied Type on April 4, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

• Timer Tip

  By Pied Type on April 4, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  Have you ever wished you had some kind of timer that you could set once and it would alert you every 30 minutes, 4 hours, or whatever interval you choose, to take your meds or stand up from your desk… Read More ›

• I am from … a while ago

  By Pied Type on April 2, 2019 • ( 12 )

  

  Several recent conversations brought to mind this item I first published in 2009. I probably should have mentioned in the first few paragraphs that all this took place in Oklahoma City between the late ’40s and the end of the… Read More ›

• Joe Biden and the #MeToo conundrum

  By Pied Type on March 31, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  The #MeToo movement has raised a lot of perplexing issues, demonstrated most recently by Lucy Flores, a former member of the Nevada Legislature and 2014 candidate for lieutenant governor and U.S. Congress. Last Friday Flores accused former Vice President Joe… Read More ›

• Something is rotten in Chicago

  By Pied Type on March 31, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

• ‘Short’ sighted

  By Pied Type on March 28, 2019 • ( 15 )

  

  Seriously, NASA didn’t think to stock up on smaller spacesuits as soon as they let women into the program!?  

• Nobody asked me

  By Pied Type on March 27, 2019 • ( 18 )

  

  Yesterday Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced the adoption of a new official logo for the state. Can’t say I’m thrilled with it. Yes, I appreciate that it’s more colorful than the old triangular logo (adopted in 2014) that I never… Read More ›

• What price oil?

  By Pied Type on March 22, 2019 • ( 8 )

  

  Updated March 23, 1:30 pm If you were planning a move to Colorado, is this what you’d want to see? Would you buy a home where this picture was taken? That’s the issue that has been and still is dividing… Read More ›

• Gun culture

  By Pied Type on March 20, 2019 • ( 21 )

  

  The recent mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, were terrible beyond words and yet, sadly, not at all unfamiliar to Americans. Mass shootings have become all too common here. It’s worth noting that in New Zealand the immediate reaction by… Read More ›