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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
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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
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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,
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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
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King's Corner column for May 9, 2025 D-Day, Normandy, France, Omaha Beach. Third wave. Running out of the landing craft into an ocean where bloated bodies of soldiers from previous waves are still floating. Getting onto the beach, then heading up the steep hill towards the concrete
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King's Corner column for May 2, 2025 ‘Heinold’s First and Last Chance’ is a waterfront saloon opened by Johnny Heinold in 1883 on Jack London Square in Oakland, California. Built from the remnants of an old whaling ship, its name “First and Last Chance” refers to the
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King's Corner column for April 25, 2025 When my dad, Mark King, was young he worked at dude ranches in Wyoming, herded cattle, and rode in rodeos from the Texas/Mexico border up to Canada. He clearly didn’t like staying put, and loved both the image and