by Nellie Curtiss … That night was one of those long snowy nights. I parallel parked outside my son’s apartment just where the deer make a nightly trek to the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande in Alamosa. My service dog Schroeder and I moseyed up the broken concrete walk avoiding iced over snow. Seated onContinue reading “Once my Smart fortwo was stuck on an ice shelf”
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That Sunday drive with Aunt Nono
By Nellie Curtiss … At my cousin Edna’s 80 acres, my aunt, my black cocker spaniel, and I loaded into my red 1989 Dodge Raider—a gift to myself the year I graduated with my master’s—for a Sunday ride in 2001. Just outside of Manassa, passed the waterless bridges of steel, Aunt Leona measured the hillContinue reading “That Sunday drive with Aunt Nono”
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