Climate change should be seen as a number one priority.
Items by Laura Pritchett
Two new fearless memoirs deliver stories of pragmatism and boundless courage.
An ode to a time of both sorrow and new found laughter.
Two writers contemplate their last moments.
As Donald Trump takes office, natural rhythms remind us of larger patterns.
When calamity strikes, a gardener finds her way back to the basics.
A Native author creates characters who are making a life in the urban West.
Laura Pritchett on the joy of snow.
It's hard to love your dog when she keeps rolling in dead animals and bringing half-eaten deer parts into your formerly tranquil home.
The old Ute-Ule mine site outside Lake City, Colo., is under scrutiny by the Hardrock Revision Team, which wants to clean up the mine and yet preserve it as a living and historic work of art.
A Western writer is tired of being typecast as a Western writer.
A formerly fearless outdoorswoman becomes unexpectedly wary once she becomes the mother of two children.
A Colorado woman copes with marauding bears, dead chickens and her beloved brother's schizophrenia.
A Colorado family finds satisfaction -- and cash -- in scavenging metal for recycling.
Western writers offer a generous and inspired list of recommended reading for the president-elect, including a diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction.
Laura Pritchett reluctantly – and guiltily –
agrees to take care of a blind pigeon for her mother.
To an aging, mentally ill woman named Jade, the beautiful
Colorado day is filled with sinister, frightening demons, and even
a well-meaning neighbor can do nothing to drive them
away.
Today’s rural West with its monster homes and
Hummers sorely needs a group like PAOBHA, People Against
Ostentatious and Boorish Housing
The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a
story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the
1870s
A writer celebrates finding happiness and finding herself,
as she romps with her children in the beautiful season of
autumn
The death of her old horse, Fury, leads a northern
Colorado writer to think about the changing aspects – and the
unchanging quirkiness – of her old hometowns of Bellvue and
LaPorte
Anti-immigration myopia
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GUNNISON BASIN ROUNDTABLE
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TAOS HORNO ADVENTURES A Multicultural Culinary Memoir Informed by History and Horticulture. Richard and Annette Rubin. At nighthawkpress.com/titles and Amazon.
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