http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5I stood on the lip of the pool deck yesterday, wondering about the swim that was ahead of me. If I thought long and hard about how to move in the water I couldn't remember how I used to do it. I stepped closer and the cool water lapped at my toes, inviting me to jump in and get exhausted, after ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Sports/Recreational/Story~139452.aspx10/18/2006 11:29:46 PMBryce Perica I miss reading the posters and advertisements in Tube stations, riding the tube during rush hour and touching twenty strangers at the same time, riding the W7 through North London suburbs, and the public transportation system. I loved people watching, not being in the United States, living in a...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Travel/Share-Stories-and-Photos-of/Story~139453.aspx10/18/2006 11:34:18 PMBryce Perica I recently spoke to a friend. He has observed unhappiness in a friend of his. He told me a little bit about this person. What he was telling me sounded pretty familiar. I hung up and wrote this. You see those hints of unhappiness; those are the ripples of a better man reaching out to his mann...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Faith/General-Faith/Story~140617.aspx10/21/2006 10:47:14 AMBryce Perica ***This is loosely based on a conversation I had with my girlfriend once*** "What the hell? You just bought that?" he said. "What?" Kate said. "The freaking Pillsbury pie cookbook. It cost four dollars," he said. "Yes, I did just buy that and I think it was worth it." They ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Short-Stories/Story~140865.aspx10/22/2006 11:56:11 PMBryce Perica The gym smells sweaty.It smells like there are ten guys sweating up and down and on the basketball court, except there are twelve girls on the volleyball court. The shrieks and cheers instantly bring me back to that awkward time, high school. Can I really only be five and a half years removed fr...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Sports/High-Schools/Story~143684.aspx10/29/2006 8:20:32 PMBryce Perica I gave four years of my life to swimming at the University of Wyoming; was made to wear the same shirt for a week; tried to drink a gallon of whole milk in an hour; drank a boot mug full of black velvet whiskey; woke up at 5:40 am four days a week; practiced 20 hours a week; practiced Saturday mo...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Sports/College/Story~143686.aspx10/29/2006 8:24:15 PMBryce Perica On FOX NEWS, Shepard Smith is admiring a pumpkin carved by a FOX NEWS admirer. The pumpkin reflects his name on the wall and reflects the channel's logo in the opposite direction. CNN addresses the EBONY magazine question: Does the Reverend Jesse Jackson still matter? By CNN's conclusion,...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/General-Sound-Off/Story~146618.aspx11/5/2006 11:41:33 PMBryce Perica * I returned home from a visit with an old best friend and wrote this.* It will never be like it was before. The carefree freedom that comes with childhood has come and gone, and I childishly half expect to return to those years on Monte Carlo Place every time I see Trey. We have passe...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Family-Friends/Stories/Story~150022.aspx11/13/2006 8:10:07 PMBryce Perica California is just too damn expensive, but then again, so is a Coach purse. Molly needs to feel better. Molly shops to feel better. Molly buys another Coach purse to feel better about not being a homeowner. Molly spends $328 on a purse and tells Mom, "Oh, once you have one of these, Mom, all you...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Short-Stories/Story~154282.aspx11/26/2006 11:45:34 PMBryce Perica I have a community of friends that are as unwavering as anything God can give me, except salvation and forgiveness in Jesus Christ. We all have received a Gift greater than one another, and that Gift is continually bringing us closer. Not too long ago I thought of these friendships as simply ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Faith/Personal-Stories-of-Faith/Story~159565.aspx12/11/2006 11:00:32 AMBryce Perica I am not yet old enough to remember many presidential races, and for that I am grateful, but there comes a time before every race that there is an unfamiliarity with some or all of the candidates; a time when you don't know who you would vote for, or if you will even have the desire to vote for ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~181678.aspx2/10/2007 11:52:03 PMBryce Perica One can only hope that Longmont officials approve another Wal-Mart Supercenter. I want the sun to rise on another concrete park, bright lights, and a boxy Supercenter. I hope they put one in the proposed lot off of Highway 119. I hate when I am driving down to Denver in the morning and can see t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Local-Happenings/Story~182326.aspx2/12/2007 3:30:32 PMBryce Perica Dear Anna, You died on a Thursday afternoon in your hotel room in Hollywood, Florida. The news of your death smothered the media. Until that Thursday I never knew that you meant so much to Americans. People paid tribute to you with emails to news networks, blogs, stories, photos, and videos o...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/General-Sound-Off/Story~253983.aspx2/21/2007 5:25:34 PMBryce Perica Yes, I watched the whole thing and asked myself why? on more than one occasion. Anyway... Ellen's opening gig wasn't as impressive as I thought it could be, but I was impressed for the first five minutes when there was no jab at the White House. I don't think the administration or Preside...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Entertainment/Movies/Story~257019.aspx3/1/2007 1:57:11 PMBryce Perica Wikipedia. Though it probably won't ever be established as a legitimate source for a research paper, it certainly has its time-consuming traps. I visited Wikipedia today to look up the name of the island Napoleon had been banished to. I forgot, and Wikipedia provided: Saint Helena. I wanted to s...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~259688.aspx3/6/2007 11:12:30 PMBryce Perica American Idol is in its sixth season...I think. I don't know really know for sure because I have never paid that much attention to the show. Until now... Most of television is crap, but the first few nights of each season of American Idol are some of the best nights on television. Wheth...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/General-Sound-Off/Story~260820.aspx3/8/2007 5:29:06 PMBryce Perica I stumbled across Blogger.com early in 2005. I don't know how I got there. I can't remember if I knew what blogs were exactly before that, but I spent some time looking around the site and found out that a blog was a place where I could keep an online journal that others could read. Blogger adve...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/General-Sound-Off/Story~280656.aspx3/18/2007 10:24:00 PMBryce Perica On Saturday night,Kate (my fiancee)and I went out to eat at Ocean in Cherry Creek. It was a birthday present from Kate. She said I could pick out any restaurant from the Denver/Boulder DiningOut magazine to go to for my birthday. While Ocean hasn't been featured in the magazine, the owners h...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Restaurants/Story~289649.aspx4/5/2007 1:20:15 PMBryce Perica This is the second round of a blog series I am writing with a friend of mine. The series is going to cover a number of topics written from the perspective of twenty-something believers fresh out of college. The first round of the series can be found at my blog and my friend's blog . ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Faith/General-Faith/Story~291977.aspx4/10/2007 1:18:16 PMBryce Perica I am no mountaineer. Sure, I have a few friends that have all the mountain gear you could ever want. These guys camp for REI sales. I just don't think I'll ever get around to doing that. Going into the mountains with some of these guys can be very intimidating actually. I feel inferior because I...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Sports/Recreational/Story~307788.aspx5/13/2007 11:01:28 PMBryce Perica The Wisconsin State Fair may be about a lot of things, but mainly it's about food. Lining every walkway of the fairgrounds are booths selling almost anything edible, that is, if you aren't a vegan or vegetarian. This is meat-eating country. And since Wisconsin is America's Dairyland, you'd be har...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Travel/Share-Stories-and-Photos-of/Story~348019.aspx8/15/2007 9:17:52 AMBryce Perica As the country watches and waits for news from Huntington, Utah, where six miners are believed trapped since Monday, the Middle East has erupted in cheers over the second successful terrorist attack in two weeks in the United States. From the Anbar Province to the residence of Supreme Leader, ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Short-Stories/Story~350453.aspx8/20/2007 12:20:57 PMBryce Perica I was in a movie today. You might be confused; I was -- most of the day. My acting career was launched by one line as an extra in a movie that is being shot here in town. Yep. It's true. The director needed some people for a classroom shoot. I emailed the director. The director emailed back. Ah, ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Entertainment/Movies/Story~355384.aspx8/30/2007 3:34:34 PMBryce Perica http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Sports/College/Story~398300.aspx11/29/2007 3:29:56 PMBryce Perica Charles Krauthammer has a Viewpoint commentary in last week's Time magazine. The commentary is about Iran and the most recent National Intelligence Estimate report saying that Iran has "not restarted its previously suspended covert nuclear-weaponization program." Krauthammer is pleased wi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/General-Sound-Off/Story~404468.aspx12/14/2007 6:08:03 PMBryce Perica At first I didn't know why. A year ago, when all the presidential candidates were doing the same thing as they are today, campaigning, a lot more of us weren't ready to pay that much attention to them. I wasn't ready yet. I mean, 2006 just ended and the talking heads were getting jittery about a...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~414050.aspx1/11/2008 11:57:52 AMBryce Perica 1. People seated in the exit-row must be 6'5" or taller. 1.a. Exception #1: When someone within the height range is traveling with a spouse or family members that aren't 6'5" or taller, that spouse or one family member will be allowed to sit in the exit-row. 1.b. Exception #2: Exit-row seat...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~432438.aspx2/22/2008 11:32:36 AMBryce Perica Two weeks ago I wrote a very short blog on Brett Favre's retirement. In the title of that blog I misspelled mourns. Immediately after writing, I moved to the couch to do some reading and as I sat down a horrific thought popped into my head. Shoot, did I put an 'e' in mourns? Did I misspell...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~443625.aspx3/18/2008 2:33:53 PMBryce Perica I was browsing eBay last week, not looking for anything in particular, but wondering how one goes about selling something on the site. I was eating potato chips. When I looked down to grab the next potato chip from the bowl I was fully aware of the fact that potato chips and cornflakes had actua...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~450900.aspx4/3/2008 9:50:20 AMBryce Perica Michael Phelps is at a pinnacle. The whole world slowed in August to watch this giant of sport do something that has never been done before. I feel so fortunate to have had the chance to witness his greatness last month and to share a love with him for the sport of swimming. I feel like a bit...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Sports/General-Sports/Story~519989.aspx9/11/2008 2:54:07 PMBryce Perica