O Christmas Tree

Lynn made a mistake once. Yes, just once, a long time ago — and no, I’d like to think it wasn’t taking up with the likes of me. We had just finished a Sunday breakfast with our peeps. That’s how long ago it was — remember back to when people could gather freely, without concern, […]

Snowball

I set up shop early this morning in the living room, watching the snow come down. Then I realized I was hearing some noise our house doesn’t usually make, but it took longer than it should have (it was early, remember) for it to occur to me that it was wind. A mid-November blizzard. So […]

The Radio That Saved Us, 9 p.m.

Well, not that it was as impressive as I’m making it out to be, but I was quite prescient yesterday when I wrote at 9 a.m. that maybe someone had cut a line and shut off Gunnison from the rest of the world. That turns out to be exactly what happened, and so even though […]

Radio Silence, 9 a.m.

This is the situation as I knew it this morning. Perhaps you have deduced, given the late arrival of this entry, that the problem was bigger than me and Spectrum. We’ll save that for tomorrow, even though readers in the Gunnison Valley already know the story. Every single time. Every single time. For reasons that […]

It’s Not About the Bike

After two and a half months of near-solid bike racing, the delayed grand tour season has come to an end, which perhaps ought to be sad, but feels rather like a relief. It’s a lot of hours taken up by spectating, and while I enjoy it, two-plus months consecutively is too much of a good […]

Neighborly Change

We have new neighbors who may be waking up this morning to the first real snowstorm of their lives. On yet another Social Saturday, I met new neighbors, soon-to-be-neighbors, and two sets of established neighbors. As well as waved to Kiley, the realtor who sells most of the lots out here, on her way to […]

For My Dear Birds

I woke up around 2 a.m., for no particular reason, and then found myself unable to go back to sleep as my brain kicked into gear. You know what was keeping me awake? No, not Election Lifetime; not covid; not the latest financial report from my business; not even the decisions that occupy my waking […]

Voices Carry

Poor Alaska. In the middle of the longest day ever in the history of the entire world, where final counts are expected today this evening overnight — oh wait, here’s another 200,000 ballots, eyes are riveted on the five states with significant ballots left to count. Except that there are really six states. Alaska, like […]

Voice of the People (Extended Play)

Here is the great news: of the 12,448 registered voters in Gunnison County, more than 11,000 cast votes in the 2020 general election. Almost 89 percent turn-out! Statewide, 82 percent of eligible electors voted, and nationwide, the turnout percentage appears to have been larger than any in the last 120 years, somewhere in the high […]

Election Day Through My Ages

The first election season I have any memory of must have been in 1968, when I was 6 years old. That was back when I thought that “running” for president was literal, a footrace across the world and the first one back to America won. Maybe this wouldn’t really be any worse a way to […]