Browsing Archive: October, 2011
Posted by Greg Campell on Wednesday, October 26, 2011,
We got ten inches of snow last night, with more falling from the sky every hour. It's the heavy, icy kind that snaps trees like pretzel sticks. The roads are a slick nightmare, and the best bet on a day like today is to hunker down indoors to drink coffee and watch soap operas. But true to form, our school district did not call off school today. Apparently, the superintendent has a congenital dislike of snow days, which reminded me of a column I wrote in 2007 in which I addressed him directly... Continue reading ...
Posted by Greg Campell on Wednesday, October 26, 2011,
It began snowing about an hour ago, the first big one of the
year, and within minutes, I was thinking about my dead friend.
It’s somewhat baffling, because there is no connection
whatsoever between the death of Chris Hondros, who was killed by mortar fire in
the warm and pleasant spring of Libya, and snowfall. In fact, I have very few
memories of Chris in the snow, and standing on my back porch watching it
fall—clad in fleece pajamas with a glass of wine in my hand, my back to the
scene...
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Posted by Greg Campell on Friday, October 14, 2011,
I remember very well the fork in my life that put me on the
road to Kosovo. It was 1996 and I was in my friend’s car sitting outside the departure terminal
at Denver International Airport and he’d said something that kept me in the
seat for a moment as I reached for the handle to get on my way to Bosnia.
“You know you don’t have to go, right?”
There was a quiet sincerity in his voice that brought me up
short. That, and the fact that he was my boss, the editor of a small
alternativ...
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