Reflections and Connections

Mark Gudmundsen from his Burley High School yearbook.

A cowboy’s personal demons

Tom Doherty, a 20-year veteran police officer said... “Even if you’re justified, killing someone means you’ve taken something away that can never be given back, never replaced, never repaired, never ameliorated. It’s absolutely irreversible. That’s a heavy burden to carry...” Years ago, I had the...

Monticello High School football team that claimed a state title in 1969. Front Row, I to r: Terry Nash, Randy Butler, Donny Torres, Mark Adams, David Bronson, John Roring, Keele Johnson, Dave Smith, Steven Maughn, Richard Smith, Curtis Redd, Mike Wilcox, Scott Boyle, Back Row, I to r: Jimmy Broderick, Kipper Wight, Danny Cressler, Tom Evans, Bill Codner, John Larsen, Joe Mirabol, Ron Wat- Dalton, John Johnson, Roy Dean Cressler, Paul Nielson, Kerry Freestone, Spencer Frost, John Snyder, John Fellmeth.

Broncos help Bucks win first state football championship in 1969

Most who know me are thinking, “What is this guy doing commenting on sports? He barely knows the difference between a football and a basketball, and he certainly wasn’t any good at either game!” Yep, right on both counts, but I have a perspective on the last game of that 1969 season not shared by...

Janet Ross poses with a quilt featuring panels from chapters in her new book A Place Called Home. Staff photo

A sense of place

In her recently published book titled A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau, Janet Ross spoke to me of the need to develop and maintain a strong “sense of place”. From the Preface of that book… “…from a sense of place, we form a commitment to protect the place where we...