Today is my mother’s birthday. I won’t tell you how old she is, but it doesn’t really matter anyways. In wisdom and experience she’s 448, and …

My car screeched to a halt halfway home from a dinner last week and I turned around. I remembered I had left my cell phone on the restaurant table.

I thought I might offer up a few unconventional love stories this month, as a sort of post-Valentine’s Day celebration.

My father, Louis Marold, was born in Victor in 1908. He grew up in the mining district, and was probably told by his father, a gold miner, tha…

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, though it’s been practically bursting out of several entryway aisles at Walmart for weeks now. (I …

There are several unusual things that have been on the top of America’s Mountain over the years, but this particular story came up again recently.

When I sought to get some dental work done last December, my sister, Laurie, insisted I schedule an appointment with Word of Mouth Family Dentistry.

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. This year, consider going beyond the flowers and chocolates and think about providing financial-related g…

In front of the Pikes Peak Center this summer will stand a life-size statue of Fannie Mae Duncan, Colorado Springs’ beloved African-American e…

We have barely dipped our toes into 2019, and I’m hearing rumblings of the United States Census 2020.

Recently, the United States government came to a standstill for 35 days over an unrealistic campaign promise made by the man who holds the hig…

We just went through the year-end giving cycle where nonprofits ask the community to support their mission with a financial gift.

What started in 1984 by The Gazette as a campaign to provide clothing and toys to needy families during the holiday season has grown into a mu…

The Oscars are dumb. So why do I — and the tens of millions who watch every year — care? Well, we like winners, losers and legacies.

No sooner had I penned a column on my yen for snow this season, than the heavens opened and wintry flakes fell generously from the sky, and al…

If there’s one thing I learned during the recent holiday baking frenzy, it’s this: spices, seasonings and herbs are expensive. Sure, you can p…

On the evening of Dec. 2, 13-year-old Ben started experiencing cold-like symptoms: cough, sore throat and congestion. The symptoms continued o…

You’ve heard me mention podcasts here and there in this column, but I wanted to take the opportunity this week to share a few of my favorites.

Any day now, I expect to hear reports of owls taking up residence high atop bags of topsoil at an outdoor garden center or in the recess bell …

If you’re a frequent flyer at Library 21C, you’ve seen that the speed limit has dropped heading down the hill on Chapel Hills Drive. Our fair …

I don’t know about you, but these days I’m looking around wondering where all of our snow is hiding? After last year’s bleak winter, dry sprin…

I prefer cool weather hiking to warm weather. Perhaps it’s because I grew up in Wisconsin and recall weekends of below-zero weather without a …

As a kid growing up between Nebraska and South Dakota, libraries were my sanctuary. I crossed Nancy Drew’s “Haunted Bridge,” dove into the “Ch…

The holidays are done and now it’s back to work. I don’t mind that at all; I have plenty to do and I’m eager to jump in. Work, I’ve discovered…

In the late 1920s the country started in on the great Prohibition. The hills around Colorado Springs became candidates for home-grown bootlegg…