Author: Paul J. Batura
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COLUMN: Alignment of values are key to the good life
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By now you’ve likely either heard or maybe caught a glimpse of a rare astronomical phenomenon known as a “planetary parade.” For a limited time, this month and next, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are…
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COLUMN: Celebrate Dr. King’s birthday on his birthday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We’re a day from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, the commemoration of the birth of the famed civil rights leader, who died tragically in April 1968. But for those of us who prefer…
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COLUMN: Christmas lights bring hope to a dark world
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tom Snider and his crew at Snider Brothers Holiday Lighting start stringing strands of Christmas lights down at The Broadmoor way back during the summer months, and it’s no wonder. With over 325 trees to…
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COLUMN: Four steps to your worst Thanksgiving ever
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thanksgiving has been celebrated in America since the autumn of 1621, but it’s only thanks to Sara Josepha Hale, editor of “Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine,” that we give thanks on the same day. Before…
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COLUMN: Don’t wait to do something until you can’t
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Retired Colorado Springs Police officer Steve Pugsley is in a race for his life — literally. By all appearances, though, the 63-year-old former bomb squad technician and Medal of Valor recipient is also living the…
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COLUMN: 153 years old Colorado Springs is aging well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are some people who believe birthday celebrations are only for kids, that another candle on the cake is nothing to cheer and commemorate, especially as the years pile up and roll on. I’m not…
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GUEST COLUMN: Solar eclipse interest hints at hunger for awe and wonder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado sky gazers might not be privy to Monday’s total solar eclipse that select sections of the country will experience, but we’ll still enjoy partial exposure to the highly anticipated celestial phenomenon. The fascination has…
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GUEST COLUMN: At Easter, life begins anew in the garden
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Unlike Christmas with all its festive trappings, Easter has a way of sneaking up on us, especially when it falls in the month of March. Coming the first Sunday after the first full moon on…
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GUEST COLUMN: Springtime in the Rockies reminds us anything can happen
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Contrasted with last week’s major snowstorm that blanketed the Pikes Peak region, spring’s arrival this week was quiet, the vernal equinox coming under the cover of darkness on Tuesday night. If you’re inclined to warmer…
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COLUMN: The sounds of significance we can’t always see
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Back in April 1994, just a few steps from Richard Nixon’s childhood 1½ story mail order Craftsman-style bungalow and his flag-draped casket in Yorba Linda, Calif., Kansas Sen. Bob Dole eulogized the 37th president. “He…