Books
Stone cold and striking hot
There will always be stories that slip through the cracks. Whether a function of human capacity, or our proclivity for comfort over truth, the...
Unearthing what’s beneath
When she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.
Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but...
The (nearly) lost art of sportswriting a proud tradition soldiers on
On vacation in Oakland the other night, I had the unique (and arguably profound) experience of 10,000 Athletics fans vocally battling 10,000 transplanted New York Yankees fans throughout a close game, and my thoughts somehow turned to academia, and writing. Over my ...
Extracting stories from the industries of the American West
In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...
Finding the common struggle
Death has this way of opening doors, of showing the living paths they didn’t realize they could take.
“Mostly it is loss,” mused the German...
Hello, Bali!
Flying to Bali this past September for a semester of for-credit study abroad, 24-year-old Naropa University student Jacqueline Tardie had no idea what to expect. A senior with dual majors in art and religion, Tardie didn’t know the Bahasa Indonesia language or what ...
