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On Labor Day in 2010, the Fourmile Canyon Fire outside of Boulder, Colorado burned more than 6,000 acres and destroyed 169 homes.
One of them was mine.Click here to read my story from the beginning.
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Category Archives: Other Fires
Looking Back – Dreaming Ahead
Tweet βIn this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.β β Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika Dear Friends, Well. It’s Labor Day, the third anniversary of the … Continue reading
Posted in Moving On, Other Fires, Port Townsend, Tragedy and Loss
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Ring of Fire
Tweet Thursday, June 28th, 2012 Twenty-Two Months Since the Four Mile Canyon Fire “I fell into a burning ring of fire. I went down, down, down and the flames went higher. And it burned, burned, burned, the ring of fire. … Continue reading
Posted in Other Fires, The New House
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Colorado Burning
Tweet Colorado is on fire – again. A huge wildfire is burning about thirty miles from me. It has already claimed two, possibly three lives, and destroyed dozens of homes. My friend and fellow writer Melanie Mulhall wrote and asked … Continue reading
Posted in Other Fires
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