Time Travels With TL: Arizona

Here’s probably the only time you’ll hear me say this: I wish I was in Arizona right now. Not because of the weather or the changing political climate or any sort of change at all: it’s the state’s non-change that appeals to me. As in, they didn’t change their clocks forward, showing eminently more sense […]

A Man, A Plan, A Bookcase

My bookcase finally came home where it belongs yesterday, although it was tempting to leave it down at the makers’ space, because I was getting a lot of compliments on it. But no: function over form, and it was time to bring it home and put it to work. When I went to the space […]

The Survey Says

As I set out to survey the very fabric of American society, I see that we are a society of surveys. And I am apparently about over it. Thursday, while cleaning out the work e-mail inbox, which gets flooded with promotional opportunities, I reached my exasperation level when our local chamber director sent out a […]

Anger Mis-Management

Here’s an intractable problem in desperate search for a solution that seems way too complicated for any one or any body anywhere in the United States to solve, although it seems like there’s an obvious answer staring us all in the face. Of course I’m talking about health care, which in exit poll after exit […]

Reading Matters

While I spent easily the first four decades of my life immersed in fiction, that has not been true for the last 17 or so years. I don’t mean I was leading a fictional existence, or living in a bubble of non-truths that seems to comfort so many these days — I’m talking about my […]

Making Tuesday Super

Sorry to have missed you yesterday. I was most of the way there when I did what I thought was pausing to shovel a little snow. That turned into a major ice excavation on the roof at work that carved majorly into time supposedly allocated to payroll . . . and well, here we are, […]

Walking to Work

For one whole week now, Oz and I have walked to work. Sort of. We get in the car and drive to Lake School, my elementary alma mater that now exclusively caters to preschoolers and kindergarteners while also serving as the administrative offices for our school district. And then we walk. The school was on […]

Going With the Flow

Yesterday was Ben’s last day at Pat’s Screen Printing, and instead of getting all mawkish and maudlin over it, Kara left for a weekend filled with Cat Fest and a whole list of other questionably “fun” plans with her friend Suzanne. Me? I spent the afternoon fussing with a leaky roof. At work, let me […]

Travels With TL: Salida

I first met Ed Quillen at a Headwaters Conference hosted by what was then Western State College. I was standing nearby as he told a man from New Mexico that he was from Salida. In good Colorado fashion, he said, as we all do, Suh-lie (as in tell one)-duh. The man from New Mexico frowned, […]

Tiny Purpose

Lynn and I devoted a little over an hour last night to watching tiny houses get built on TV, and I have to say I don’t get what all the fuss is about. The overall price may seem “reasonable,” by which I mean an amount one could have used 20 years ago to buy an […]