Ideally, a human life should be a constant pilgrimage of discovery. The most exciting discoveries happen at the frontiers. When you come to know something new, you come closer to
Tag: Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Along the Big Sandy Creek
Last weekend, I made my eighth pilgrimage to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. On my way there this time, I listened to Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy
A life of its own: A Fort Chambers “remembrance”?
It’s strange how life works sometimes. A simple, off-hand conversation I had last summer with my friend Tim has now become a “thing.” The conversation itself had to do with
“On Faith”
Read my latest contribution to the “On Faith” column series in the Broomfield Enterprise: “Reflections on the October Holiday” (Oct. 20, 2019)
Sand Creek is all around us
They marched all night through snow and frigid temperatures. At dawn on Nov. 29, 1864, they attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho camps along a big bend of Sand Creek in