The Steps We Take

This is a story I’ve already told and may, in my dotage, tell yet again, but the trial taking place in the U.S. Senate has me harkening back to my high school days on the speech and debate team. My debate partner Erik and I were in our first round of three at one of […]

So, Covid.

Yesterday Gilly got a text she wasn’t expecting at all: Come to the Fieldhouse Wednesday at 5:30 to get your first shot. The county, the state, the Center for Disease Control — somebody — has decided it’s now okay for those 65 and older to start getting immunized against what we hope is all strains […]

Popped Culture

Let’s go back to the Super Bowl, the Sunday game that my new numbers guy, Neil Greenberg, ranked among the worst ever to watch in terms of excitement. For the record, so did my sister Terri — she just doesn’t have the national audience Mr. Greenberg does. And she didn’t diss the Broncos. In monetary […]

Bettor Ways to Lose

Today’s the big day, the holiest of all American holidays: Super Bowl Sunday. And yet, I’m having trouble caring, even though I have skin in the game. Really, as Lynn and I watch commercial after commercial for this or that betting opportunity, many of which seem to involve the over-the-top fountain in front of the […]

The State of Western

I arrived in Gunnison in May of 1969, packed alongside my sisters and some of our belongings in a Ford Falcon station wagon. We left Denver where my dad had recently picked up a master’s degree and drove over Monarch Pass in a snowstorm that I have no recollection of but which terrifies my mother […]

Weathering Lows

Back in my sporting days, which means reporting on sporting rather than actually doing anything, I would stand right in the thick of the opposition team on the sidelines at Western Then State football games. I would unfurl my game program and peruse the heights listed for all the players, all of whom checked in […]

On a Dime

Let us consider the dime, the smallest and perhaps least remarkable of all American coins. They’re thin, and tiny, and people like to stop on them. And yesterday, they paid off handsomely for my niece. My research, which might have even lasted seven whole minutes this morning, started with the US Mint, which wasn’t as […]

Good for Nothing

It is not a good sign when you wake up during the night wondering when it will be daylight so you can take a nap. That’s what I did Friday night, multiple times. We’re somewhere around a full moon, and the other day I saw a headline, although I didn’t pursue the story, suggesting there […]

Geezerdom

I had to file a complaint with my bank the other day. It pained me to do so, but I had to: I was offended by their calendar. Every year the Savings and Loan puts together a calendar featuring photos from Gunnison’s past. A history calendar, if you will. And it was fun to open […]

I Remember Sunshine

Four days without a post and you are probably in the polite stage of wondering where I am. Some days that’s what I wonder too, as my attention span drifts down to almost nothing and the overcast skies have brought a severe case of the blahs. I’m just going to tell you right now, I […]