I do a lot of writing for University of Colorado Hospital. They received 23 of the 70 people wounded in the Aurora theater shootings starting at 1:06 a.m. on Friday, July 20. The department and the hospital at large were packed to capacity at the time. Now they faced the greatest mass-casualty event in the…
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The alleged, though really no-longer alleged, Aurora theater shooter's apartment building was a busy place today, hours after James Holmes shot 71 people, killing 12 as of this posting. Another five are in critical condition at University of Colorado Hospital.
I put "siege" in quotation marks because Holmes is in custody, and will, in all likelihood,…
17th Avenue, my cycling route blocked by a madman's booby-trapped apartment (Stephen Mitchell/Denver Post)
I was planning on riding my bike over to University of Colorado Hospital this afternoon, but a three square block area through which I normally pedal has been cordoned off. You see, James Holmes, 24, the alleged Dark Night murderer -- who…
My #TEDxMileHigh talk, "Colorado Mavericks," is up on YouTube at http://bit.ly/SvJvqT; a bit of background here: http://bit.ly/JM8xly.
Final draft of the talk:
Making the leap
I’m Todd Neff. So many stories of epic success (personal and professional, in business, politics, sports, sciences, the arts) involve some huge risk – some leap into the void – that paid off…
Peregrine feathers. Maybe.
I’m getting into road biking, seeing that soccer, even over-30 coed, is not a long-term fitness solution for 43-year-olds. On July 4, I went for a morning ride with my friend Greg Laugero.
Greg was a late arrival to cycling, I think roughly my age when he started a couple of years back. But…