Cabinet Meetings

The other day, while walking the streets of Gunnison (there are streetwalkers, and then there are street walkers), I came across my friend Bonnie, who has worked for a local computer store forever. She was in front of her place of business, enjoying the sunshine for a brief moment. What she said resonated, perhaps depressingly: […]

By a Nose

I have had precisely two bloody noses in my life. The first came way back when we lived in Denver, so at age 6 or younger. I barely recall it; I think neighbors were adding onto their house or building a garage — anyway, there were 2 x 4s raised slightly off the ground, and […]

Not the IT Boy Any Longer

Laugh if you must, but I’m what passes for an “IT” department at work. Not “it,” as in the game of Tag or actress Clara Bow, but I.T. as in Information Technology. And that’s me. Yes, the person who can’t figure out the most basic features of his cellphone functions as the IT department at […]

Gress: Pro- or Re-?

Since I’m sure you’ve been in suspense since yesterday, I did not open my retail store for bicycle visitors, and I did not get caught up on the 100 work projects I am behind on. I let myself get talked out it rather easily by my breakfast companions — what are friends for, hm? — […]

Sunday Commerce

Today may be the official start to summer in Gunnison, and I’m undecided what to do about it. It’s June 9, normally a fairly unremarkable day. And usually we in the commerce sector of Gunnison regard Memorial Day, when the first “sidewalk sale” of the year takes place, as the “official” start to our summer […]

Marvel-less

Can you remember back to a day when the internet didn’t rule your life? Yeah, me neither. Well, maybe, in some sort of dim, distant past. Actually, I am old enough to remember TV shows where the entire telephone was mounted onto a wall, always at man-height. Lassie’s boy’s mom always seemed to have to […]

Dan Day

As we all should know, today is the 75th anniversary of the storming of the beaches of Normandy by the Allied forces. Operation Overlord, months if not years in the planning, became D-Day, the day that most military scholars mark as the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. There are what seem to […]

Sleepless in Gunnison

It turns out I missed a very busy day at work on Monday, and the summer grind of dealing with unpleasant, unreasonable customers has already started. Most of the people we deal with range from nice to slightly sullen. Then there are those at either end of the spectrum. Of course we all love the […]

Travels with TL: Interstate Damnation

Alphabetically, getting from Arvada to Aurora is not that far. In terms of culture, temperament and ethnicity, there’s a vast gulf between the two. And, in the measurement that matters most to me, distance, they are at opposite ends of the top of the Greater Denver Metro Area. Both my sisters and my mom live […]

Short News

I have one hour before Planned Departure Time, and I’m still not packed, nor have I typed instructions for cat feeders, so this is going to be short. But I didn’t want you all to be bereft of my presence. Yes, it’s true: for the second time in a single month, I am hitting the […]