Patty Limerick

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on June 21, 2021 By Patty Limerick The phrase has elicited derision, without understanding Of all the memorable ways to let a genie out of a bottle, it is hard to beat the maneuver of inventing a phrase and...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on May 14, 2021 By Patty Limerick Before 2021, whenever I heard the name “Cheney,” I was overcome by a compulsion to overgeneralize. “I know all I need to know about that clan,” I would think, “and I know...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on March 25, 2021 By PATTY LIMERICK, LUIS BENITEZ | luis.benitez@state.co.us and ALISON ROSE JEFFERSON The new secretary of the interior should prioritize the outdoor economy and push for more inclusivity The Department of the Interior has been nicknamed...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on March 18, 2021 By Patty Limerick At 95% effective, I am ready to return to society but not to normal just yet In days of yore, when someone told me to “be careful,” what I should do next...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on February 20, 2021 By Patty Limerick When the vote to convict former President Donald J. Trump fell short of a two-thirds majority, an impulse to escape the present — by leaping into the future — took possession of...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on January 25, 2021 By Patty Limerick and Bob Draughon The nation’s leaders are now locked in a bitter struggle to control the vision of how the citizens of a divided nation should be brought back together. If all...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on November 12, 2020 By Patty Limerick There are reasons to believe that the 2020 presidential election is tearing our nation in two. And there are also reasons to believe that Americans hold the power to refuse the rupture...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on September 19, 2020 By Patty Limerick In these grim times, we have every reason to conjure up ways to feel better about the world. So I asked myself, what could I do that would distract me from thinking...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on August 14, 2020 Once upon a time, people used to assemble in lecture halls and auditoriums to hear a speaker. They would sit unimaginably close to one another, exhaling with abandon into each other’s airspace. It was an...

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on July 13, 2020 By Patty Limerick Recent limitations on access to hair stylists would not have troubled Medusa, the Greek Gorgon whose hair-do was actually a “snake-do.” Looking at Medusa was never a pleasure, but gazing in her...