My thoughts on Colorado

I was born in Colorado Springs in 1983 and my grandparents still live in Watkins, which is about 20 miles outside of Denver.    I remember hearing about the fires and my first thought was, "how close are my grandparents?"  Thankfully, they are safe.  My grandma said she could see the smoke from their house. 

Aurora is about 12 miles from my grandparents house and when I visit them, we often go to Aurora as it is the closest city.  It is such a tragedy that this shooting has happened.

I am proud to say that I was born in Colorado.  Despite the fact that there have been two major shootings in the past 13 years.   Colorado will always be in my thoughts.