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King's Corner: A Friendly Surprise
King's Corner column for July 11, 2025 Lifelong friends are precious. My dad, Mark King, and his friend Stu started doing things together in their late teens. They were equally fun, unpredictable influences on each other. Right until the time they ran into something more unpredictable. Along with
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Pine Nuts: Founding Incline Village
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King's Corner: Sudden Surprises
King's Corner column for July 4, 2025 Rocky Mountain National Park in north-central Colorado is often nicknamed Estes Park, as that’s the town at the eastern entrance. The Continental Divide runs directly through the center, as do the headwaters of the Colorado River, defining the beginning
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Comstock Chronicle Weekly Update 6.27.2025
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. - Maria Callas Our friend Ford over at For the Song has been working hard to build a thriving music scene here on the Comstock, and he’s doing a fine job. I like
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King's Corner: What’s Real
King's Corner column for June 20, 2025 When my dad, Robert ‘Mark’ King, was in his teens he rode the rodeo circuit. His friend Ken taught him how to be a hazer – someone who keeps the cow or bull close to the horse of the rider coming up
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King's Corner: Childhood Dreams
King's Corner column for June 13, 2025 For his fourth birthday my dad, Robert Mark King, received a gift that would change his life. The latest technology for playing pre-recorded music had just been released. These days that might be a new type of music streaming device,
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Pine Nuts: What Starlings Can Teach Us
We don’t have Starlings up here at the Lake of the Sky, though I wish we did, as recent research has discovered that Starlings give care to birds to whom they are not related. And they administer that kindness regardless of those other birds’ political beliefs. Say what?!
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King's Corner: A Fireside Chat
King's Corner column for June 6, 2025 Some holidays are unmissable. On either Thanksgiving or Christmas you’ll probably set aside time to be with family. You may even attend church at Christmas to watch kids in shepherd outfits act out the scene where Christ was born in
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King's Corner: Uncovering Secrets
King's Corner column for May 30, 2025 There was a time when you might have been able to keep a secret undiscovered, but that’s rarely the case now. For instance, if you use a dating app to meet someone online, you can use another website to look
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King's Corner: For the Fallen
King's Corner column for May 23, 2025 A reporter at a local Reno television station had the idea of interviewing a WWII veteran for a Memorial Day segment. She and her crew came out to the house to meet my dad, Robert “Mark” King. They wanted to discuss
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King's Corner: Growing Up
King's Corner column for May 16, 2025 Perth, where the two-and-a-half mile wide Swan River meets the ocean, is in the west of the Australian continent, in a position much like Los Angeles is in the US. Ships entering the mouth of the river are