Patty Limerick

Once upon a time, a mother took her son to see the Supreme Court in session. The little boy sat patiently as lawyers presented their arguments, and the justices listened dispassionately. And then a fly landed on the forehead of one of the justices, who raised his hand to brush it off.

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on August 17, 2018 at 12:01 pm By: Patty Limerick This Thursday, May 17, 2018, photograph, shows “Play Ball!,” the new special exhibit inside the History Colorado Center, in Denver. Kevin J. Beaty, Denverite via AP This Thursday, May...

Original article can be found at The Gazette Originally published on August 5, 2018 By Patty Limerick Special to The Gazette “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” William Jennings Bryan said in his famed “Cross of Gold”...

Early in April, my luck took an upward surge, and I was permitted to serve as a human subject in a strenuous social psychology experiment.

Fellow Coloradans, why are so many of you sinking so deep into truancy and never showing up in my class? I do not want to threaten, but if this situation does not improve, you are unlikely to receive a passing grade.

In some arenas of life, I am getting better traction.

Ordinarily, if a person who is 66 years old declares that she can tell you what young people today are thinking, escaping that person’s company is your obvious course of action.

When I became the Official Colorado State Historian, I came into possession of a breathtaking portfolio of powers.

Stretched past its capacity by the tumultuous migrations and movements of the 19th century, that orderly term “westward expansion” is ready for a break.

When I was a child, we learned how to use grammar and punctuation properly. This educational practice has withered over the last half-century, and nothing suggests it will be revived.