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Position: Herald Staff Writer
Email: johnp@durangoherald.com
Position: Herald Staff Writer
Email: johnp@durangoherald.com
Imagine, if you have to, that you are a parent. Youre told your child has cancer and you begin to research online. All you read is that your child is almost certainly going to die.I was flipping...
DATE: March 25, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
In some jobs you get noticed only when youve done something atrocious.This thought occurred to me a few weeks ago when I was dragged to an Oscar party. OK, I wasnt dragged, but I did go with...
DATE: March 11, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
Among the things you’re probably not expecting to see when you venture into the Main Mall:A Civil War promotion signed by Abraham Lincoln.A Lee Harvey Oswald savings account withdrawal receipt.A...
DATE: March 4, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
No more chants of burang, burang as they walk down the street. No more motorbikes cruising along with an unhelmeted family of five hanging on.Their return to Durango earlier this month brought as...
DATE: Feb. 26, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
SueB Earl sees the T-shirts from the 2011 event around town. She knows that her two children, eighth-grader Elli and sixth-grader Joci, participated in the fundraiser a year ago.But at the time,...
DATE: Feb. 19, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
Sometimes youre a bumbling klutz. Other times youre an unconquerable hero. And sometimes youre both within a couple hours.To get my truck stuck miles from help took only a momentary lapse in...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
The project wasnt really about cooking hot dogs in his backyard. That was just an added bonus.No, what 17-year-old Kavi Pool did last summer could possibly change the future way of life of a tribe...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
Earl Caudill, the chaplain for Hospice of Mercy, says he gets along well with crusty old men.In his line of work, he encounters quite a few, so hes had some practice. But he has another...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
Imagine youre floating in the galaxy, untethered, with a spaceships-eye view of our solar system. You push the fast-forward button and watch as a blueish planet swivels around the sun, chained by...
DATE: Jan. 22, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
Mickey Hogan readily admits it’s not fodder for a full-length Hollywood movie. But 61 years later, he can still share memories of the time he hung out with Marilyn Monroe.The 82-year-old Durangoan...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
I suppose this is a love story.That's the only way it makes any sense. Otherwise, why are you so devastated when the time comes to say goodbye?Ellie the chocolate Labrador retriever was born Jan....
DATE: Jan. 8, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
Rick Kerr doesnt want people to end up in his shoes. Thats why hes willing to share publicly the once-lethal condition hes been battling now for 10 years.Kerr is HIV-positive.Quickly we should...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2012 | COLUMN: John Peel
