Author: Kristen Sublette
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College Rodeo athlete Kayden Henderson: how CMU Rodeo has impacted his life
Kayden Henderson, 20, of Elko, Nevada is a first-generation cowboy and saddle bronc rider. Currently sitting third in the Rocky Mountain region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA). Henderson is a sophomore at Colorado Mesa University (CMU) where he is studying MFG cluster tech welding. I had the pleasure of attending the short-go of…
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Logan Ryan Band
Logan Ryan Band has broke out onto the Texas Country Music scene with a true Texas Red Dirt sound in early 2017. I can’t help but shake to the beat of this music with songs like Cigarettes and Alcohol, Guess Some Dreams Come True, and Tecovas, you won’t be able to help yourself either. I…
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Enjoy the Ride with Trey Yates
The Yates family name is prolific within the rodeo community. Trey Yates continues the family legacy competing as a heeler in Team Roping. At the young age of 28, his future looks incredibly bright, as he finished out the 2023 season 19th in the world, with 2023 earnings just shy of $80,000. Throughout Trey’s career…
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Loser.
“Loser- a person who fails frequently or is generally unsuccessful in life.” I have been calling myself a loser for far too long. It is the word I use to hurt myself the most, to open old wounds, to rub the salt in. Is it true? Am I really a loser? I’ve turned my entire…
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Phony
Its in the quiet hours of the night when my creativity sparks to life. I feel i there, click into place, I’m lost in my musings a safe space. Is there a point or is it pointless? Scribbling words and pictures that will never surface. Do I do this for the love or the need?…
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Running on Change: The Full Album, Jarrod Morris’s latest release
I remember the first time I heard Jarrod Morris’s music. I was on a dirt road, in the middle of no where, eastern Colorado. I was headed up to my boyfriend’s ranch for the weekend. It was the infamous summer of 2020, Colorado was still playing COVID games, leaving my friends and I to hop…
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Texas is Calling pt. 2
It was a cloudy afternoon in Canyon Lake, the humidity smacked me like a screen door as I exited my vehicle. Nervous energy pulsed through my body as I checked in to the retreat. I was handed my giant goodie bag and given my house number for the next three days. I drove up to…
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Texas is calling.
I love Texas. My best friend and I were driving home from the college rodeo in Riverton, Wyoming. A year previous we were both new students at Colorado State University, and headed to the same rodeo. Over the course of the weekend we became fast friends, sharing beers and cigarettes, singing our favorite songs, nearly…
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Jenna Paulette & Her New Album “The Girl I Was”
Talk about an epic journey, I have been listening to Jenna Paulette since her first single hit the airwaves. With the release of her first full length album, it’s clear this Cowgirl is going places. I discovered Jenna listening to the “Cowgirl Problems” podcast with Courtenay DeHoff. Courtenay played her single, “Wild Like the West”…
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That Feeling
I’m chasing a feeling. Like an old faded photograph that lives in the back of my mind. Like the hot summer sun beating down on the pavement of yet another mountain highway, I’m chasing, Like an old greasy diner, the kind you used to smoke in. I’m chasing something just out of reach. That old…
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