OUT OF THE BLUESby Maggie Judi
See also Dust in the Wind
Sometime in the year 1801, a baby boy was born near a babbling spring just north of two massive mounds of earth. The mounds appeared to have been snipped off by some unseen and careless deity, not quite reaching their original potential.  
The mother of the new baby no doubt shared the sacred history of their home as he grew.

OUT OF THE BLUESby Maggie Judi
On a bright and cold December day in 1997, a man driving near Ucolo spotted a teddy bear in the road.  Stopping the pickup to retrieve the toy for his children, the man immediately noticed something awfully wrong.  
The bear had blood on it and the man could see an abandoned coat and what appeared to be drag marks in the otherwise pristine landscape of white heading away into the trees.

BACK TO THE BLUESby Maggie Judi
There’s a new podcast out about motherhood featuring three residents of San Juan County.
Despite the local connection, here’s the real reason it grabbed my attention.
When I pushed play to listen to the very first episode of Family Looking Up, I hear these infinite words of wisdom spoken against a familiar background: the din of childhood.

OUT OF THE BLUESby Maggie Judi
Sometime during his junior year at Monticello High School, Chase Randall completed an assignment in Judy Barton’s class that would change the course of his life.  
It was an easy and simple assignment: apply to three colleges.  
Maybe it was in his genes that one of the schools Chase chose was the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.  

BACK TO THE BLUESby Maggie Judi
There have been many history-making moments in San Juan County this year, windmills and monuments among them. However, one wonderful piece of history may have quietly slipped by.  
On December 15, 2016, Amy Bronson Camacho was sworn in as San Juan County’s first female Sheriff’s deputy!