O Cousin My Cousin

On my way here, with a completely different plan in mind, I swung by my e-mail — and that has changed everything. I have a cousin who became my cousin when we were both in college at the University of Colorado, and he has been battling a rare form of blood cancer which has taken […]

Travels With TL: 60 Miles (Away From Home)

Yesterday Lynn and I went to Montrose. I could say we went with a song in our heart, or at least on the radio, but we didn’t. We went in her Jeep, with half a bag of Bugles to sustain us and, in the back, a pile of metal and the world’s most neurotic dog. […]

Baby It’s Cold: The Sequel

Sometimes it’s the little things that stick with you. Since we decided to build a house — more correctly, have a house built for us — Lynn and I have been shamelessly inviting ourselves into other people’s homes. We’ve been in at least five houses built by our contractor. Happily, everyone seemed pleased with their […]

Stemming the Size Tide of Doubt

I was deep into a discourse that was intended to be today’s blog entry, but as I was rambling (and rambling and rambling), it became clear that the topic was Bigger Than All of Us, and needs more control than I’m bringing this morning (and now I am fighting for supremacy of the computer and […]

A Miserly View of the Movies

I fell asleep last night trying to watch my favorite holiday show, The Year Without a Santa Claus. I’d already missed out on the first half-hour when I discovered it on AMC, a channel I normally won’t watch because it’s two minutes of show tucked inside eight-minute segments of commercials. But for the Snow Miser, […]

Here to Help

Perhaps you think I am doing this blog on my own, without any assistance — except for the images I borrow from the Miracle of the Internet. I haven’t even asked WordPress for assistance, although I’m about to, because a couple of entries are using images from the middle of the post rather than the […]

Watchin’ and Waitin’

When I was in college, one of my professors wanted to meet individually with everyone in the class to discuss term papers we would be writing. I went to his office one day and sat with about four other students, waiting as each took their turn and the day grew longer and longer. It got […]

The Age of Aquarius

Yesterday at work, I remembered I hadn’t signed into a new gizmo my solar installers had set me up with, so I finally did that. This is so cool, I’m sharing it with the world. And you. Back in 2005, a solar system (not the solar system, with Mars and Jupiter and –always still in […]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

You will be glad to know that at this exact moment, Gunnison is the coldest spot in the state, if not the country. Minus 7 Fahrenheit, according to Weather Underground. I had sort of promised my car that it would have a garage this year — and it is now learning that I am a […]

Rear Window

One of the TV shows I watched as a kid — and I was not alone in this — was The Brady Bunch. There are many facets of this show that might merit discussion: the rampant sexism, the seamless blending of two families into one, poor Robert Reed’s torment as a closeted gay man playing […]