Very early on the morning on May 5, 2007 I got a call from NBC News to hurry from Denver to Greensburg, Kansas. There had been a huge tornado and the town was devastated. Go! Go! When I pulled into the town six hours later I was stunned to see wreckage so complete that even [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Denver’
The Greening of Greensburg
Posted: November 15, 2011 in Business, Children, Colorado, Economy, Education, Environment, Inspiration, Media, Natural Disasters, News, News and Views, Photography, Politics, Random Thoughts, Technology, Television, Travel, United States of America, Weather, WomenTags: Alabama, America, Bob Dixson, Dan Rather, Dan Rather Reports, Denver, Disaster, Environment, Green, Greensburg, HDNet, Highway 54, John Deere, Joplin, Kansas, Missouri, NBC News, Rural America, Sun Chips, Sustainable, Tornado, Tuscaloosa
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Gone to the Dogs
Posted: August 18, 2011 in Animals, Arts and Culture, Colorado, Community Service, Dogs, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Photography, Random Thoughts, WomenTags: Alaska, California, Chihuahua, Colorado, Denver, Dogs, Dumb Friends League, Gone to the Dogs, Knoll Gallery, Niza Knoll, San Francisco, Santa Fe Arts District, Santa Fe Drive, Talkeetna, Teletrends, Union Square, Vicky Collins, Vicky Collins Photography
My friend, Niza Knoll, has an art gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District in Denver. Knoll Gallery is a fantastic array of creativity and is emerging as one of the best galleries in Denver (in my humble opinion.) Each year Niza does a juried exhibit featuring art on dogs. Gone to the Dogs 3 [...]
Blair’s First Filmmaking Job
Posted: January 17, 2011 in Arts and Culture, Business, Children, Colorado, Community Service, Education, Holidays, Human Rights, Inspiration, Judaism, Media, Middle East, Movies, News, News and Views, Parenting, Philanthropy, Photography, Random Thoughts, Religion, Television, WomenTags: 4000 Mile Road Trip: Gathering Sparks, Blair Ewalt, Denver, Denver Post, Denver School of the Arts, Film, Final Cut, High Definition, Mizel Museum, Sue Stoveall
My 12 year old son, Blair Ewalt, a budding filmmaker and 7th grade student at Denver School of the Arts, just produced his first professional film. It is a two and a half minute promotional piece for an exhibit called “The 4000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks” at Denver’s Mizel Museum. The exhibit opens on February [...]
Blaine Harrington’s Photo Exhibit
Posted: December 17, 2010 in Africa, Colorado, India, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Photography, Random Thoughts, Travel, United States of America, WomenTags: Bhutan, Blaine Harrington, Burma, Colorado, Denver, Denver Photo Art Gallery, Fiji, India, John Fielder, Namibia, Photography, Rajasthan, Santa Fe Arts District, Santa Fe Drive, Society of American Travel Writers, South Africa, Thailand, Travel, United States
My friend, Blaine Harrington, is one of the most accomplished travel photographers in the world. He will be the featured photographer in an exhibit called “Unifying the World through Color” at the Denver Photo Art Gallery (for those of you in Denver it is John Fielder’s gallery at 833 Santa Fe Drive) starting on Friday, [...]
BeadforLife on 9News
Posted: October 9, 2010 in Africa, Business, Children, Colorado, Community Service, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, United States of America, WomenTags: 9News, Bazi Kanani, BeadforLife, Denver, NBC, Uganda
Thanks Bazi Kanani of Denver’s 9News for doing this wonderful story about the income generating project, BeadforLife. If you would like to host a bead party visit http://beadforlife.org. The organization is on its way to booking 100 parties in 100 days. It’s time and money very well spent and the women of Uganda will rain [...]
Politics and Plagiarism
Posted: July 14, 2010 in Business, Colorado, Community Service, Education, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, United States of AmericaTags: 9News, Adam Schrager, Colorado, Colorado Supreme Court, Congress, Denver, GOP, Gregory Hobbs, Hasan Family Foundation, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Rolly Fischer, Scott McInnis, The Washington Post
Middle school and high school students are taught to never plagiarize. When you turn your paper in it better be your work. My then tweenage son forgot the rules and got a big fat zero once. Apparently Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis missed class that day. Or maybe he thinks politicians should be held [...]
