Last week, amid the firestorm over the words “you didn’t build that,” actor Sherman Hemsley passed away. Americans remember Hemsley for playing George Jefferson, TV’s popular upwardly mobile black businessman. Known for &# Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved.... Read more →

You guys probably don’t know this, but I was a pretty serious gymnast once.My mom put me in gymnastics when I was 8 years old because she noticed I was getting a little “thick through the midsection,” as my dad would des Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →

Can you stand another column on bicycling? I swear it will have nothing to do with men in Lycra. If “men” are intent on two-wheeling through town wearing Bermuda Speedos and belly-overhang-enhancing billboard jerseys, who Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →

It dawned on me the other day that it had been quite awhile since I wrote a column that had something to do with penises, or penii, to use the proper Latin conjugation. I consider that a disservice to my readers, in particular one bro Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →

So every year I try to write a story in this space using the “Three Dot Journalism” format made famous by Herb Caen, the great San Francisco Chronicle columnist who chronicled the doings in Baghdad by the Bay. With the Oly Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →

I’m fresh back in town after spending far too long on the road: two full months in wonderful places. I’ve been in New York, Italy and San Francisco, and – thanks for asking – it’s been glorious all the way.But, as ever, Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved.... Read more →

Although I consider anything before 10 a.m. to be “pre-dawn,” I set my alarm every Friday night to make sure I get to the Aspen Saturday Market by 9. After 10, you can be sure the place will be a zoo and you will have to f Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →

Arizona’s flammable ponderosa pine forests stretch from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon above the Mogollon Rim to the White Mountains in the east. Most of that land – glory country for recreationists, as well as the watershed Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This... Read more →

At an Aspen Writers’ Foundation discussion of “A River Runs Through It” in June, author Terry Tempest Williams offered a moral indictment against sport fishing.That same week, National Public Radio aired an interview wit Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →

It’s been quite the summer for superheroes. For the past few months the big screen has been filled with fantastical, superpowered beings: Iron Man, Batman, Spider-Man, Abraham Lincoln.I understand the concept that you should set you Copyright 2012 The Aspen Times. All rights reserved. This material... Read more →