Making Sense of the Census

Ah, yes, it's that time of the decade again! Take 3:23 and hear what I wrote about everyone's favorite decennial exercise in the March 24th "Coloradoan" by clicking below:


Census 3-10.mp3

I appreciate your time and effort in standing up to be counted. Now sit down and relax, won't you?

Life goes on...

Losing someone you love is never easy but as one of the Hospice nurses told us, "It's special when it's Dad and his girls." Click on the following link to hear about my father Robert Rader's passing as written in the February 24th "Coloradoan."


February 2010 .mp3

Long live "Good King Robert," as his two granddaughters dubbed him years ago. I love you forever, Dad.

Lame ducks no longer dead ducks

Politics schmolitics! I agree in my January 27th Coloradoan newspaper column with outgoing CO governor Bill Ritter: family should indeed come first. To hear all about it, click here:

Lame Duck 1-10.mp3

Thanks for not, ahem, ducking the important issue of election reform.

Avoiding an apocalypse then and now

Such a merry topic, eh? And yet...

Click below to hear my predictions for 2012 and beyond as expressed in my community column for the 12/23/09 Coloradoan:

Happy_New_Year_2009.mp3


Here's to the brightest (in every way possible) New Year ever! 2010 will be zen!

Love to you and yours.

Thankful for location, location, location

Me and mine are grateful that Colorado State University is in our proverbial backyard even if others can't see how lucky we are. To hear more from my 11/25/09 Coloradoan column, click here:

CSU 11-09.mp3

Thank you for caring enough to listen, and for listening to those you care about.

She calls 'em like she sees 'em in The Coloradoan, now heard here

To listen to "Bursting a much ballyhooed balloon, October 28, 2009," click the link below:

Media 10-09.mp3

Thanks for listening! I'll be adding some demo voicework here shortly; once my daughter Erin helps me figure this blah-blah-blogging jazz out, that is!