Tag: Rhyolite Press
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Reflecting on the wonder of Christmas: New book by local author helps readers recapture season’s spiritual gifts
If there’s any time of the year that brings the word “wonder” to mind, it’s Christmas. That “feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar or inexplicable” as Oxford Languages describes it, seems to come to life with the awesomeness of the season. Bringing a tree inside, hanging lights outside, buying…
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Retired Colorado Springs police officer’s new book details history of department
Dwight Haverkorn’s new book detailing the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department started with bloody murder. It was 1998 and the now retired Colorado Springs police investigator was having breakfast with friends. One of them told Haverkorn a story about a downtown house her mother once owned before being converted into apartments. After stopping…
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Author Pam Houston to receive writing award in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mother Nature stepped in when Pam Houston’s parents failed her. To say the award-winning author’s childhood was rough is putting it mildly. Though her mother loved her, she has said in interviews, she was more devoted to booze and did nothing to protect Houston from…
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Author Pam Houston to receive writing award in Colorado Springs
Mother Nature stepped in when Pam Houston’s parents failed her. To say the award-winning author’s childhood was rough is putting it mildly. Though her mother loved her, she has said in interviews, she was more devoted to booze and did nothing to protect Houston from years of physical and sexual abuse heaped upon her by…