Author: Eric Sondermann
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SONDERMANN | Words matter, especially with issues of immigration
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Eric Sondermann As a writer, I can attest that words matter. The choice of this word versus that word carries with it different meanings and connotations. As a reader, you surely feel the same. For today, let’s focus on the complex issue of immigration and how vocabulary is key to the debate. The words we…
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SONDERMANN | The day, 49 years ago, when I debated George Will
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Eric Sondermann George Will turned 80 earlier this month. He let the world know of his milestone through a poignant, typically erudite essay. None of us are getting any younger, as if there were any doubt about that truism. Though the point of this column is not to pay tribute to the senior eminence he…
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SONDERMANN | The five stages of grief and today’s GOP
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Eric Sondermann Anyone who has gone through the journey of loss and grief – which means most living, breathing, sentient adults – knows something of moving through those intense and difficult feelings. Dating back a full half-century, the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified five distinct stages to this grieving process in her landmark book, “On Death…
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SONDERMANN | How not to defeat Lauren Boebert
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Eric Sondermann Having captured nearly every political office in sight, Colorado Democrats are now drooling over one more conquest — that being to defeat the loathed Lauren Boebert in the western Colorado congressional district. No doubt, Boebert is something of a caricature and a one-trick pony with a non-stop focus on gun rights when she…
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SONDERMANN | Boundless spending grows ever bigger
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Eric Sondermann For social conversation, I occasionally pose the question of mankind’s greatest invention. Responses vary but often include the telephone, antibiotics, the computer, search engines and GPS. In my book, the prize goes to Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press. For without it, government would be unable to literally print money, which ours is…
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SONDERMANN | Mulling over a March full of madness
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Eric Sondermann So many issues warranting commentary. Favoring quantity over depth this week, let’s quickly touch on a number of topics du jour. First up has to be the tragic massacre last Monday at the south Boulder King Soopers. This is being written but 24 hours later, and it will be a number of long…
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SONDERMANN | After Tuesday, let the healing begin
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Eric Sondermann That neighbor down the street with a yard full of signs for the other party’s candidates? Guess what – come Wednesday morning, or a week later if it takes that long to figure out election results, he will still be your neighbor. The same goes for that coworker who could be a decent…
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SONDERMANN | How to watch the election returns like a pro
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Eric Sondermann For those anticipating election night (and who among readers of this column is not), let me recommend a television and a laptop, a comfortable chair and an extra few shots of caffeine. You’ll need them, along with a healthy dose of patience accompanied by my insight on what to look for and what…
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SONDERMANN | America needs to de-stress
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Eric Sondermann Many, many of us are stressed individually. The country is stressed. A pandemic has a way of doing that. Doubly so when accompanied by an economic collapse affecting countless among us. But that pervasive stress was present well before COVID entered the lexicon and before all but a few Americans knew the first…
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SONDERMANN | Notes on the debate: Closer to normal, but nowhere near enough
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Eric Sondermann Twenty-four hours after the debate and but 11 days until the counting of ballots, let’s take stock by looking back to the Thursday night festivities and ahead to where this all stands. A Friday morning headline from Politico perhaps summed up the debate with some precision. It read, “That was a pretty good…