In Tune

Day 5 of the New Year, and I am not feeling any improved over T Minus One (Dec. 31). I made an appointment with a naturopath for Monday morning, although I’m wondering if I’m going to be serious about following any recommendation she might make. Many years ago, she told someone I know to wear […]

Yin and Yang

Yesterday should have been exciting, and some of it was. Driving toward Riverwalk and seeing a forest of 2 x 4s marking the frame of our house — that was exciting. I wanted this post to start “Admiral, there be walls here!” which would be immediately recognizable to those of you who know Star Trek […]

Word of warning: insomnia-fueled rant to follow. Or maybe it’s just a prolonged whine. I slept through my prime blogging time again, after being awake from somewhere around 11:30 p.m. past 4 a.m. Maybe I should have tried blogging then, but I was trying to sleep. And I was feeling my cold seep down into […]

The Color of Cartoons

We’ve covered my attraction to SpongeBob SquarePants. But what you may not know — although I doubt it will surprise you — is that I also have a thing for Minions, the little talking pill capsules from the Despicable Me movies. They are also yellow, which may or may not be a coincidence. I hadn’t […]

Gratitude

I don’t even know where I was yesterday when I heard someone — I feel it was on TV, but who knows — say the New Year is a time for reflection and renewal. Of course, if you’re Jewish, you already did this, a couple of months ago, and if you’re Chinese, you need to […]

Update

I was sure all your minds were as inquiring as mine, so here is what Oz and I found at the lot. See if this sounds like a fun job: the two on their knees on the garage pad are chipping away all the little bits of ice and snow so they can lay sill […]

Snow Day

Author-historian James Michener reported it used to be said of the Platte River: “Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.” Were he still around, he could write about modern Gunnison snow storms: Too much to ignore, too little to shovel. Compared especially to last year, we have a decent amount of snow on the […]

Reality Check

On Friday I got an e-mail from the real estate company we are going to use to sell our current house, Some Day. Audrie of The Clarke Agency wished me happy holidays and wondered about the status of our house construction project. She knew it was early, and no pressure, but she has a client […]

Comes a Color

I have always liked color. As a kid, I enjoyed looking through the Land’s End catalogues, not particularly attracted by the clothing, but I liked the stacks of sweaters alongside the models, showing all the available colors. My childhood may have been somewhat deprived, because for school I always got the box of 24 Crayons, […]

In Living Coral

This, as you can see, is Pantone’s Color of the Year, starting in five days, and let me be probably not the first to say: ick. Many years ago, I read about the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver that clerks were not supposed to comment on the titles their customers were purchasing, good or bad. […]