West Slope Is the Best Slope is something people say who live on the Western Slope of Colorado, which I now know (because I’ve asked Tracy a million times) means west of the Continental Divide—and not east of it, which is called the Front Range. We were on the Western Slope at Colorado National Monument […]
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Lemme Tell Ya the Story of Mike, the Headless Chicken
In Colorado in the 1940s, a guy stepped into his backyard to kill a chicken for dinner. His ax skills weren’t all they could have been, I’m guessing, because not all of the chicken’s head came off. What remained was one ear and the brain stem. The chicken (Mike) didn’t just run around headless, he […]
