The Van Manens Music For Kids and Women in Retreat

09/26/2025

After 49 years living in the little mountain town of Beulah, we just sold our place and our next big adventure begins. Here's my essay about what it's like leaving the place that has been my home for so long.

Feeling Both Happy and Sad as a New Chapter Begins

08/20/2024

I've been hacked. be careful.

04/22/2024

Here is Dave Van Manen 's love letter to the Earth for you on Earth Day.

If you like to hike, bird, camp, hunt, kayak, fish, mountain bike … you should read this!

04/01/2024

I'm happy that Dave is now writing on the substack platform. If you don't know what that means...simply said...just click below to read his free essays and thanks for sharing his work with those you know who love first person life experience writing. Go Dave Van Manen

Musings and birdsong along a mountain trail.

02/24/2024

Have you read this?

I was waiting in line at an artisan sourdough bakery in Colorado Springs a few days ago, enjoying the sunshine on a chilly mid-winter morning. Before the popular bakery re-opened during the pandemic, they installed an outdoor window where customers could buy their baguettes, whole grain loaves, and....

02/14/2024

I hope you dance today. Some of our favorite songs...would love to know if any are yours too. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yDOlMbTyZwPcTm5geq63g?si=7eda8b1c406a434d

Valentines Day with The Van Manens Playlist. Love it up with us! · Playlist · 31 songs · 19 likes

01/30/2024

We love the Spotify Playlist feature and our music is now there. Plus they made a radio that we are included in which is fun since you get to hear music that is in the same musical genre as our music. So I"m posting this as an option. We appreciate our friends who are Spotify listeners to like our stuff. We get about $20 a month in royalties for listens which is a hoot and fun but trust me, there is no big money in music for the small people like us.

Dave Van Manen Radio · Playlist · 50 songs · 8 likes

09/22/2023

I wrote this song in the early 90's, inspired by an article in Utne Reader. Entitled "The Acceleration Syndrome", the article spoke to how so many of us are...