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Doug Kinzy
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Biography
With a master’s in electronic engineering, Doug worked for major companies in that field before switching to real estate for 12 years. From that experience, he hatched the idea for Colorado Serenity and never looked back. Over years past, Doug filled his spare time with mountain climbing, skiing, cycling and programming. He now fills his time working with his wife, Serenity editor Holly Jorgensen, making Serenity the best it can be while occasionally running off to favorite Colorado hideouts.
ARTICLES
Flooded With Thoughts
I don’t know what I expected for January, but what I got was a flood of thoughts across the emotional spectrum of joy and sadness. One cannot help but share an immense sorrow for the California families who, in a matter of hours, lost everything. I can’t stop...
Enjoy The Holiday Season
Giving Thanks
This year, I want to give particular thanks to having my wonderful wife, Holly, in my life for the last 15 years. She is absolutely the most amazing woman I have ever known. She is always there for her daughter, Carina, and me no matter how badly the wheels are...
Make It Simple
Long ago, I recognized a pattern in my design efforts. It takes me many creations of workable solutions before arriving at what I consider an elegantly simple design. Most often, looking back at my first design, I can be harshly critical, as in: How could you be so...
Mountain Pine Beetle
At the risk of being called “Captain Obvious,” I want to draw attention to the comeback being staged by the Mountain Pine Beetle in our “Evergreen” forests. I say comeback because there was a major infestation in the late 1990s. That’s when Summit County was hit so...
Fly and Grace
Wow. As I sit here writing, I just noticed that it’s raining again—one of those delicious, soaking showers. It must be almost a week now that the Global Warming Gods have taken pity on us! Now, let me share with you two of my favorite verses from John Denver’s “Rocky...
Something Difficult
Life’s journey is littered with choices between taking the easy road or the one more difficult. We often find the choice is driven by pragmatism—i.e. “This is not that important to me. I need to find the easiest way to move on.” But, what if you find that nothing is...
It’s Great To Be Alive
On my walk this morning, I stopped to smell the flowers.
AI Will Soon Eat Itself
I recently read an article about the Civil War battle at Antietam. The battle occurred on September 17, 1862 and has become known as the single bloodiest day in U.S. history with 23,000 total casualties, even surpassing the total casualties on D-Day when Allied forces...
What Others Think
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. —John Wayne Well, you may not know this, but there’s things that gnaw at a man worse than dyin’. —Charlie Wait If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. —Seth Godin If you can’t explain it simply, you...
The Toughest Man…
As I have gotten older, I have taken to taking stock of long lost friends. Here is what I wrote about one in the January issue of 2018. Last week, Jim Harrell finally found a challenge he could not overcome. A rare lung infection took advantage of his lungs that had...
The Super Bowl
I want to mention how much I appreciate the Super Bowl. And, this comes from a guy who has never played a down of football... for obvious reasons. LOL! And it’s not that I love and/or appreciate the game and its rules, which are much easier to understand than hockey....
Sharing My Wisdom
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. — Jim Rohn Someone asked me the other day, “How do you guys deal with the stress of putting Serenity together every month?” Every month is pretty much a blank slate. We have just a partial idea what...
Happy Holidays to All and an Amazing 2024!
Thanksgiving
