Dead Presidents

Either late in high school or early in college, I got caught up in the intrigue of a “curse” — one of those things that probably just happens but which we humans like to ascribe mystical powers to. You know, like bad things happening in threes, or the nonsensical Curse of Tut’s Tomb, which took […]

Unmasked

The other day, on my way to pay a bill, I poked my head in at my barber’s shop to say howdy. My barber isn’t really just my barber: he’s Kevin, a classmate since junior high and a friend since not long after that. In fact, I owe Kevin a lot, because when I was […]

Gastro-versary

Yesterday Lynn and I, sort of, marked four years of marital bliss, or 18 years of co-habitation, whichever impresses you more. It must not have impressed the two of us all that much, because our “celebration” consisted of opening the card my mother had sent. Several others were kind enough to remember the day and […]

The Gap Becomes a Chasm

As I was filling out a grant application form the other day, the same one for the fourth time (isn’t there an adage about doing the same thing over and over, somehow thinking the outcome will be different?), I got to the final question, the one every grant includes, the one where they want to […]

Top to Bottom

For a period of time, my mom and stepdad moved a lot. From Gunnison to Fort Collins back to Gunnison to Montrose to Santa Fe to Pueblo West. There they stopped for several years as John finished out his career with the U.S. Forest Service, but eventually they moved one more time, to their current […]

Home Grown Tomatoes

First off: apologies to those of you who found yesterday’s post incomprehensible because it came in a single, solid paragraph. Like all things technology, WordPress was not happy leaving things alone, and a few weeks back it implemented its “block” system, assuring me I could go back to “classic” anytime I liked. I feel I […]

The Last Picture Show

The first movie I fell asleep during was in 1996. My friend Matt and I were at the Flick Theatre watching Star Trek First Contact, and he said something witty, to which I didn’t reply. He took that as disapproval of his talking during the movie, but when I jerked awake a few short minutes […]

Unreal Estate

What pandemic? Gunnison County has no virus cases, area businesses have more work than employees to work it, and real estate has turned completely unreal. While setting our for our Saturday Inspection Tour, Oz and I ran across the realtor who sold our lot to us. Kiley was re-establishing a “for sale” sign that took […]

Cereal Science

Hang on everyone: I’m about to get all sciencey on you. Awhile back, I took a close look at my cereal bowl collection. I mentioned in an early blog post that these Tupperware bowls have been my breakfastware of choice for as long as I can remember — 55 years or more. No matter what […]

Outwitted: Fernando

The other day I mentioned how technology is outwitting me at every turn these days. However, it is not the only aspect of life that is getting the best of me. No, I am also being undone by something small. Something unknown, sort of. As part of Gunnison’s great rodent infestation of 2020, a creature […]