The Shape of Things

Perhaps (perhaps not) you recall me lamenting the other day that my Suave Kids shampoo had switched pictures from a fun elephant to a rather ugly octopus. Well, octopi (which the internet just now tells me is the wrong plural, because it’s not Latin, it’s Greek, so it should be octopodes — or octopuses […]

Pinball

I believe this is Day 60 for me as a blogger, and my thoughts are as disorganized as the rest of me this morning. I am realizing I would do better — and possibly be more coherent — if I could manage my blogging later in the day. I am not one of these people […]

Travels With TL: The House That Won the West

As a kid, I indulged in comic books. Not any of the Marvel or other superheroes so prominent today; I focused mostly on Richie Rich, with some Archies and Casper, the Friendly Ghost. I don’t recall a single one of these comics now, but inside some of them were page-long stories, and those I remember […]

In Sure Rant

I’m feeling more Andy Rooney than Mickey Rooney these days. It could be my cold. It could be January. It could just be me. Anyway, here’s what’s on my mind this morning: insurance. No, not health insurance — well, that’s always on my mind, the entire health industry is, but that’s not getting solved this […]

In Tune

Day 5 of the New Year, and I am not feeling any improved over T Minus One (Dec. 31). I made an appointment with a naturopath for Monday morning, although I’m wondering if I’m going to be serious about following any recommendation she might make. Many years ago, she told someone I know to wear […]

Word of warning: insomnia-fueled rant to follow. Or maybe it’s just a prolonged whine. I slept through my prime blogging time again, after being awake from somewhere around 11:30 p.m. past 4 a.m. Maybe I should have tried blogging then, but I was trying to sleep. And I was feeling my cold seep down into […]

The Color of Cartoons

We’ve covered my attraction to SpongeBob SquarePants. But what you may not know — although I doubt it will surprise you — is that I also have a thing for Minions, the little talking pill capsules from the Despicable Me movies. They are also yellow, which may or may not be a coincidence. I hadn’t […]

Gratitude

I don’t even know where I was yesterday when I heard someone — I feel it was on TV, but who knows — say the New Year is a time for reflection and renewal. Of course, if you’re Jewish, you already did this, a couple of months ago, and if you’re Chinese, you need to […]

Snow Day

Author-historian James Michener reported it used to be said of the Platte River: “Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.” Were he still around, he could write about modern Gunnison snow storms: Too much to ignore, too little to shovel. Compared especially to last year, we have a decent amount of snow on the […]

Reality Check

On Friday I got an e-mail from the real estate company we are going to use to sell our current house, Some Day. Audrie of The Clarke Agency wished me happy holidays and wondered about the status of our house construction project. She knew it was early, and no pressure, but she has a client […]