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King's Corner column for August 8, 2025 issue Some people have a life-long love affair with horses. And while some live that out on trails following mountain streams, or in dressage competition rings, or as mounted police officers, my dad’s – Mark King’s – adrenaline-filled passion came to
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King's Corner column for August 1, 2025 issue The stretch limo was solid white. The handsome man standing in the middle of the limo, so that the top half of his body was visible above the sun roof, was wearing a solid white tuxedo and a huge smile.
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King's Corner column for the July 25, 2025 issue When I was young I fell in love with a car. A 1930 Model A Ford Coupe with a rumble seat. In Southern California, the land of freeways, it barely kept up with anything. My family was supportive since
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King's Corner column for the July 18, 2025 issue I always knew I was adopted. There’s something profound about knowing your father and mother, knowing where you came from, hugging someone who’s your flesh-and-blood. When you’re adopted you don’t know any of that. You
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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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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 of
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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 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, or
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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 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 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 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 often greeted by