Coronaball

When the Colorado school year started, extracurricular activities were very much up in the aerosolized air. The overseeing body, the beloved (I’m kidding) Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA), finally resorted to the alphabet, proposing A, B, C and D sports seasons, truncating the duration of most sports to fit an extra fourth season in. […]

Customer Disservice

The Giro d’Italia started without me. In this crazy, mixed-up year, the bike race that normally kicks the grand tour season off in May was set to start instead two weeks after the long-delayed Tour de France. And somehow it’s been two weeks, and I didn’t notice. I only missed by one day, remembering on […]

Service Calls

Today is filled with certain uncertainty, so if you tuned in exclusively to hear a tale of medical incompetence at the presidential level — well, you will need to wait for another day, or possibly tune into current events. No, Life has evolved at a rapid rate of speed here at a “new” house, so […]

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 […]