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Dorothy Burcham Bratton July 17, 1925 – August 20, 2008

Dorothy Burcham. Bratton passed away peacefully on August 20, 2008 in Grand Junction from CHF and Pulmonary Fibrosis. She was 83 years old. Dorothy was born July 17, 1925 in [...]

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Everything is going great here in Wien.
Personally, I’ve turned the corner. They say that expats typically go through a cycle. There’s a “newness” phase where everything is great and wonderful, then reality sets in that, “damn, it’s hard” to raise kids thousands of miles from any support system one may have had and that, [...]

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Meeting Great Grandmother (Moo)
I intend to trickle the Colorado trip photos into Flickr over the coming days. Unfortunately, Flickr is having some scale issues and I’m encountering a lot of difficulty getting them into the system. Even if I try to upload only once, several copies appear on the site, and the queue [...]

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Ooh! Ooh! Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Strega is a special liquer from Italy. Named “witch,” it plays off of the idea that the town from which the product comes, Benevento, Italy (good wind) used to be named Malevanto, which means “bad wind,” in reference to the towns reputation [...]

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These stickers were all the rage when I was a kid, as was the “don’t Californicate Colorado” and “If God had meant Texans to ski, he’d have made bullshit white” expressions. I even had an English teacher in 8th grade who told us that we were permitted to not capitalize California or Texas because [...]

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My hometown makes the news:
Student suspended for use of word ‘gay’
By Nancy Lofholm, Denver Post Western Slope Bureau
A sixth-grade student at a Grand Junction middle school was suspended this week for referring to a student referee’s call during a playground ballgame as “gay.”
Ben Madison, 12, said he was playing at West Middle School when he [...]

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Tigers sweep the series.

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Colorado College (10), my alma mater, plays University of Alaska – Anchorage in the best-of-three Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoff series on Saturday. I think they can punk Anchorage, but we’ll see who they get in the Final 5.Read more about CC HockeyRead more about Division I College Hockey

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