I don’t suppose there are too many people who look forward to getting sick, so when I say, “I don’t like getting sick,” the immediate follow-up probably ought to be: Well, who does? But there are clearly people who worry about this far less than I do, and I live with one of them. Left […]

Since Oz and I have been walking to work from in-town locations, we only get out and about in our own neighborhood on weekends. Last Sunday we took in what used to be the highest of my holy days, High Water Weekend for the Gunnison River; instead of rafting, which I haven’t done in decades, […]

One complaint that has been lodged rather consistently and across the political spectrum regarding Gunnison County’s response to Corona has been a lack of clear communication. You’d think by now the county would be well aware of this issue and work toward fixing it, but it seems, looking at the front page of the local […]

I’m feeling very tired and unmotivated this morning, following a day where I nearly fell asleep multiple times while sitting at my desk trying to work. And when I say “trying,” I mean “waiting on my computer.” In the Before Time, I did some work at my computer, and then Kara would go to lunch […]

I have been puzzling, idly and in spare moments, the last several days, over the nature of protests and how exactly that works in the midst of Pandemia. I am wondering about the notion of double standards. The first protests we heard about were those aimed not necessarily at the virus itself, but the notion […]

Well, we’re firmly in June and it is 2020, so of course it snowed overnight. I believe it also snowed in June last year, but that was the Year of No Spring, when it snowed all the way through May into June. This year we’ve already had some days of high heat, which might make […]

Sometimes I feel so stupid wearing a mask. I already had a small box of them at home, purchased from a grocery store at some previous point when I was sick and not wanting to spread germs as I went places. Places where I got funny looks from everyone around me, all the people I […]

There are people in this world, of which I am not one, who set out to do things and do them right away. These are the achievers, the do-ers, maybe the get-rich-quick entrepreneurs. They are not the TL Livermores of the world. When I was a kid there was a man who lived, briefly, on […]

Here is the sort of gross generalization I used to lecture college students against using in their writing: everyone loves free stuff. In this case, however, since it’s me and not my students, it’s a truism: people love getting things for free. Perhaps not everyone, but almost everyone. Lots. Lots of people like getting stuff […]