Tigers and Cats and Lyin’, Oh My

Today is the first, and perhaps only, day in my entire existence that you will hear me say this: I wish I cared more about golf. The title for today’s blog entry would write itself: Tiger Out of the Woods, and I could go on to extol the virtues of perseverance and belief in one’s […]

Dogged by Mental Health Issues

I don’t know if it was our vigorous social schedule, daunting door decisions, or just the endlessly dreary weather, but Lynn and I were both worn out yesterday. Mid-afternoon, I lay down for awhile, bringing this week’s Crested Butte News with me. And even though I was sleepy, I was somewhat taken aback by how […]

Entrenched

These days, it’s all about the digging, with more in the future — from an unexpected quarter. The other day Lynn brought in a flyer that had been left in our mailbox. Dutiful postal employee that she is, she was not happy that it was illegally in the box without a stamp. To those of […]

Come on, Baby, Light a Fire

Making wrong decisions are a part of life. You know, learning from our mistakes and all that? Well, it turns out, there’s a different kind of “wrong,” and Lynn and I are excelling at it. Wrong as in “focused on what our contractor tells us” rather than “focused on what he really means.” One […]

Socialized

Starting last Saturday, this has been a very social, and schedule-disrupting, week. (And now blog-disrupting: for the first time in awhile, Na Ki’o is here to help.) It does not feel that long ago, and yet somehow a lifetime away, that my life used to operate like this all the time. I had activities or […]

Socking It to Football

As we learned yesterday, way back in 1979 people were warning of the dangers of football. At least, I read it in a magazine (I’m thinking Sports Illustrated, for which football is still its bread and butter) and turned it into a speech, where I recall mentioning that football had killed four players the previous […]

Stumped Speech

In high school I joined the speech and debate team as a freshman. Everyone on the team spoke a language unknown to me: Pythonese. Every last member of the team seemed to be a rabid fan of Monty Python, and I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about. To this day, when I […]

Tia Comes Home

Today is my sister Tia’s first day of school in many years. I think she’s excited; I know I’m excited for her. Today is her first day as the new business manager of the Gunnison Watershed School District. She’s going to be a busy bee for awhile, because she’s easing part-time into her new job […]

Beans for Breakfast

Every Sunday a group of us gathers for a late breakfast and to set the world straight, which takes about two hours. Well, the food portion. Straightening the world out can clearly be done in a matter of minutes. I don’t remember how long this has gone on, but it’s been awhile. In the Before […]

Let’s Be Arch, Shall We?

When I was 10 or so, I owned a book called Good Old Archibald, about which I remember very little. But these days, we don’t have to remember anything, because the internet does it for us. Archibald was a new kid in town, and he came with a lot of money to a place that […]