(From 5280 Magazine, December 2008, page 56) Spruced Up Your new, living Christmas tree. It wouldn’t be December without the annual debate between fake and cut Christmas trees. Artificial trees are easy to set up, but are often made with a toxic stew of PVC, lead, and carcinogenic chemicals—some manufacturers even recommend keeping children away. [...]
(from 5280 Magazine, November 2008, page 31) Riding the Rails Can RTD keep up with its success? If America is addicted to cars, Denver appears to have been in rehab. Fed up with high gas prices and commuter congestion—and, perhaps, possessing a desire to cut their carbon emissions—metro area residents have been taking public transportation [...]
(from 5280 Magazine, October 2008, page 34) Dealers’ Wheels Our 10-step plan to survive the world’s largest consumer bike expo. When 10,000 cyclophiles are let loose at the annual Subaru Denver VeloSwap, gearheaded pandemonium ensues. The consumer trade show and flea market offers 400-plus vendors selling gear, pros wandering through the crowd, and cycling companies [...]
Abstract Boulder Preparatory High School serves a wide range of students; drastically different skill, motivational, attendance, and age factors join together in the same classrooms. Two major obstacles to learner success are transient attendance rates and difficulty processing information. Students frequently miss presentation of critical course information or lack comprehension at first exposure to new [...]
Introduction The octogenarian woman coos with pride as my infant’s eyes fix on the wide screen television in her living room. Immediately, however, her granddaughter enters the room and furiously clicks at the television remote. The screen goes black as the mother and daughter argue in their native Persian dialect. This argument continues across America. [...]
Everything here-from the starfish, the mangroves, even the island’s shape-makes me thing of limbs: fingers, toes, legs, arms, branches, roots, etc. And I seem to have lost my shoes. Cancún and Isla Mujeres linger only vaguely in my mind; all my attention now surrounds my feet. The thick padded soles of the locals here have [...]
You always feel like you have a great deal of unused energy that you haven’t turned to your advantage. Waking up early to catch the #65 lets you read when you would otherwise be driving. You assure skeptical others that it’s the only time of day when you feel like royalty, being driven by someone [...]
Self-report inventories and other objective assessments are widely used by psychological professionals. These tests offer clinicians a cost-effective and efficient means for diagnosing individuals beyond more subjective methods such as projective tests or pure clinical judgment. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and its successor, the MMPI-2, remain one of the most popular self-report assessments available. [...]
World Naked Bike Ride – Boulder, CO Please scroll down for longer writing samples. The following clips were delivered over three months to email list subscribers. Clips were also frequently used to promote the ride on various bicycling message groups, blogs, and local Boulder websites. Because you’re sick and tired of letting squirrels have all [...]
Some days, as she grasps the steel handrail to board the bus, I remember the first time I noticed her scars—the jagged, pale parallel stripes on both her obsidian cheeks. I distinctly recall the metallic taste of autonomic empathy, as I moved my tongue around my mouth in search for dirty nickels, loosened teeth or [...]
