
After working within the music industry for many years and leaving Los Angeles to move to Colorado, I, Bruce Brodeen, was going up a chairlift on an early-season 'powder day' pondering my future-in gorgeous Aspen, Colorado (little known fact: my neighbor was Hunter S. Thompson but that is another story, literary-fans) My wife and I had just moved there after selling our house for a huge loss in the recession of those times. Arrived with newfound debt, no jobs and our precious 1st-born (dog, Tobi)