Dolly Viscardi | The Herald Times

Loose Ends: All for mom, apple pie and the American flag

So many of my conversations lately have involved the word freedom and how all of us come to different understandings of the word. Our individual right to “live free” is debated daily on the news. It doesn’t matter if you get news from social media, television, or radio. There are[Read More…]

November 1, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Shop at home first

MEEKER | Supporting small businesses has always been a part of community life. That is, it was the underpinning of a healthy local economy, until the economic upheaval caused by COVID-19 threatened to make shopping for the necessities of life more difficult. The bloating of the corporate conglomerates such as[Read More…]

February 22, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: This is how it is now

MEEKER | This is how it is now — no same old/same old, no business as usual — as we all attempt to go back to our daily lives. Reading a magazine article recently I came across that phrase and the obtuse “new normal” that is used to describe daily[Read More…]

February 6, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Resolutions

MEEKER | Are you tired of making resolutions year after year, only to watch them fade away shortly after making them? According to a study done by social scientists, most of us are not tired of this tradition. The majority of us continue to try to make a new start[Read More…]

January 8, 2021 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Opinion

Cuppa joe

MEEKER | Blame it on the first “cuppa joe” I was handed by an old cowboy so many years ago. It was nothing like the kind you are handed these days. No fancy flavorings, no frothy, creamy swirls topping the inky liquid. It was a simple mug of the steaming,[Read More…]

December 9, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Oct. 22, 2020

Noise MEEKER | Business as usual is a phrase that comes to mind when talking about the health of the local economy. I was surprised when Mesa County’s executive director Robin Brown was quoted in an article in mid-September in the Grand Junction Sentinel saying that “We are so used[Read More…]

October 22, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: A place at the table

MEEKER | Years ago as a reporter, I first became aware of the need for local government to send representatives over to Denver to make sure decisions about our area were not being made without us. The Piceance Basin was booming and plans were being made to handle the influx[Read More…]

October 8, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: They shoot rattlesnakes

RBC | “Are you still shooting rattlesnakes?” a high school classmate asked me after reconnecting on social media. Having moved to the western slope of Colorado so many years earlier, I’d forgotten my long letters to friends and family regaling them with all of my “Back East meets Out West”[Read More…]

July 24, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: The ties that bind

MEEKER | I never thought that the first page I would turn to in a newspaper would be the obituary page. I admit I do tend to glance at the significant dates (birth and death), so I might be accused of this tendency to assure myself, as usually I am[Read More…]

December 9, 2019 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Rebuilding the bridge between cultures

MEEKER | “Where did the Indians go?” continues to be a commonly asked question from first time visitors to this area. The White River Utes were removed to a desert reservation from their homeland in 1879 after Indian Agent Nathan Meeker and the other men working with him were killed.[Read More…]

September 27, 2019 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled