Patty Limerick

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on August 20, 2016 By Patty Limerick  I would like to announce the creation of Partners for Posterity, a coalition of groups that have taken up the great cause of

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on July 16, 2016 By Patty Limerick  The recent killings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas have turned us all into amateur theologians and moral philosophers,

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on June 17, 2016 By Patty Limerick  Let’s say that you have gone to hear Gov. John Hickenlooper talk about his recently published autobiography, “The Opposite of Woe

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on May 12, 2016 By Patty Limerick  In a universe very distant from the one I inhabit, parents and teachers collide and clash. Helicopter parents make frequent

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on April 15, 2016 By Patty Limerick  As the madcap exercise called “the presidential campaign” lurches along, a vexing question haunts me: How, in the wild political

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on March 18, 2016 By Patty Limerick  After a recent visit to our nation’s capital, I came home with restored hope for my nation.  There’s a tribute you don’t

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on January 16, 2016 By Patty Limerick  I never wanted to move to Colorado.  As the newly appointed Colorado state historian, I aim to earn a high ranking for the

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on December 18, 2015 By Patty Limerick  Thirty years ago, designing and conducting an innovative research project, I established myself as a founder and pacesetter in

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on November 13, 2015 By Patty Limerick  The University of Colorado at Boulder has given an honorary Ph.D. to a contentious public figure with a habit of using words

Original article can be found at The Denver Post   Originally published on October 16, 2015 By Patty Limerick  Even though time travel is impossible, we are sometimes picked up and abruptly deposited in the past.  “Nearly all of the