What if I turned it all off?
As I left Boulder today, I rapidly scanned the radio stations. Commercials. Talking. Old music. Crappy music. The same songs I heard on my morning drive. More commercials. More talking. You get the...
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Cinderella moments
**Image courtesy of AriatMy black cowboy boots recently reached their 12th birthday. The wood of each heel is beginning to splinter. Each sole exudes this perfect circular pattern right below the ball...
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Coffee and community
Every Friday morning, I drift sleepy-eyed through the doors of Hooked on Colfax, my favorite coffee shop in Denver. The baristas know my order, a bit of my background and that I find Hooked on Colfax...
View ArticleOn rocky ground
"Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep... And some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit. It came up and grew and yielded...
View ArticleShow me your #ashtag
I started a new job a couple weeks ago, and I happen to be in the office on Wednesday mornings. This past Wednesday, I walked into my office, sat down at my new desk, puled out my computer, and began...
View ArticleACLs and Anniversaries
an•ni•ver•sary (an ə vʉr´sə rē) n. pl. 1 the date on which some event occurred in an earlier year 1 the commemoration of such an event on that date in following yearsOutpatient orthopedic surgery is an...
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Reason, season or a lifetime
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” - C.S. LewisPeople come into our lives for a variety of reasons. Some of them...
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Work Isn't All There Is
“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life” – Hillary Rodham ClintonThis past Tuesday was my last day at American Cowboy (AC) magazine. AC was my spring, and final, semester internship for...
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Recess
“It’s okay. You made a mistake. You’re still learning,” said a little boy no more than 3 feet tall. In what must have been his “old age” of four, he uttered these words of wisdom to his barely...
View ArticleEveryday Extraordinary
Fourteen of us sat on the back porch in the warm summer sun; sipping cool drinks, recounting our favorite moments from the previous day’s fairytale-like celebration. The newlyweds grinned ear-to-ear as...
View ArticleLost
“To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty” – Pope FrancisHe walked into the church in the early morning hours with only...
View ArticleHope in front of me
If there is any process that can take your sense of hope, doubt, faith and trust, put all of them in a blender and see what comes out, the job application process might be just that. The amount of time...
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It ain't about the football
Last night, I went to see “When the Game Stands Tall” – the “football movie” as I called it when I purchased my ticket from the woman at the box office. Though pigskins, helmets and touchdowns frame...
View ArticleEverything Matters in What You're Busy About
It is not enough to be busy: so are the ants. The question is: What are you busy about? – Henry David ThoreauI recently took a couple of daylong drives into the mountains of Colorado. On the first...
View ArticlePeople of Progress
“Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again” – Pope Benedict XVIA couple weeks ago, a student...
View ArticleChange requires doing something different
“Change requires doing something different”– Jonathan Malm, Created For MoreNovember 30 was a big day. It was big in a lot of ways. It was a big day because it was the start of Advent and the holiday...
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The New Brand of Jesuit Universities
Published in The Atlantic! This piece is the culmination of a year of research, interviews and writing. Read the article.
View ArticleTraffic sucks! Or does it really?
Earlier this evening, I decided to drive north on Colorado Boulevard during rush hour. I had to run a few errands along that route and didn’t think twice about the time. Soon enough I was crawling up...
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Broken hearts are messy
“Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone” - Pope FrancisHeartbreak is not convenient. Just as the human heart seldom follows a...
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Sunsets, solitude and redeeming loss
“We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning / We can assign to happiness” – T.S. EliotFor a few days,...
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