Today marks six years since my mom died and the world became a little less bright. Every year, on her birth and death days, I do my best to honor her in one way or[…]
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Civil War of My Books
I’m having a weird relationship with my books lately. I have many, many books. I had many books before my mom died, and then I got most of hers, and now I have even more.[…]
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As Real As It Gets! On Hurricane Coverage and Other Disasters
I keep hearing weather forecasters, newspeople, and public officials warn residents in the path of Hurricane Irma with words like, “This is as real as it gets!” “This is the real deal, people!” And the[…]
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One Year Ago Today: Mess, Humanity, Bernie Sanders
One year ago today, I gave my first political speech. The whole story is here. It kicked off a juggernaut of a year, in which I ended up a national delegate representing thousands of Coloradans[…]
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Paper Clothes: Trigger to Talisman
Four years ago yesterday, my family and I stood in an Arkansas ICU hospital room where my brother fought for his life. On the way back from burying my mother in a Tennessee graveyard, my[…]
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Nine Years in the Making – The Oat Project memoir
And so it is here. The Oat Project is done, ready, being read by presale and (from way back) full subscribers. Are you ready? I don’t feel ready. But I’m doing it anyway. Right now,[…]
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THE Announcement – My Mom’s View
ANNOUNCEMENT (Please read, then watch the video): Nine years ago, I started a project that became transformational then seminal: Over the summer of 2007, at 37 years old, I finally came of age via doing[…]
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Going to the DNC: How it All Happened
I’m headed to the Democratic National Convention as a delegate for Colorado Congressional District 5. !!! I’m still in a bit of shock over here, but if you’d like to know the whole story of[…]
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WWBD? Bernie Made Me Do It!
Hi everybody! Dang I love Bernie Sanders! Like many of you, Bernie is why I decided to go from only voting in major elections to becoming a Democrat to volunteering then caucusing then delegating then[…]
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A Pre-Announcement Announcement
Oh, dear ones. You know how we’re all trained by media for the PRE-announcement announcement? Well, here’s one: It has been one. long. haul. holy cow. Almost exactly nine years ago, I set off on[…]
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