This Place Where I Live

Some words about the weather: it’s cold. The weathercaster on Channel 4 Denver, Chris Spears, seemed quite happy (he’s always happy) this morning to report a statewide low of -18 in Gunnison. My computer begs to differ: Weather Underground currently has us at -11. (In fairness to Mr. Spears, he probably gets the temps for […]

The Un-Decider

Today is Decision Day — and I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be deciding. In general, decisions are not my best thing. Like breathing, we humans (and lots of other creatures) make tons of decisions without even noticing: when to get out of bed, which room to walk into, what to do next; […]

Epiphanic

I had an epiphany in a fast-food drive-through yesterday. Okay, I can hear the judgment: yes, I was eating fast food. I had my car because the City of Gunnison has not been at its best for snow removal this year, and instead of plowing up everything when it turned to slush at 36 degrees […]

High Crimes

Before Lake City was Lake City, it experienced its first murders — murders that have lived in infamy. Lake City, a tiny little hamlet that swells substantially in the summer months, lies 60 miles south of Gunnison in its own county, Hinsdale. It calls itself, in a slogan I’m quite impressed with, “A Diamond in […]

Courting No Favors

Here in Gunnison County, we needed a new courthouse long before we got one. As with most things in government — probably all of Life — what seems like a simple statement of fact quickly becomes mired in controversy and outcry. We need a new courthouse. No, we don’t. The courthouse is unsafe and falling […]

Driven

Over the course of the last two months, including a trip to Montrose and back, I probably spent 12 cumulative hours in cars. Until Friday, when over the course of three days I logged 16 hours in vehicle seats. This is just not how I live my life. I tried to intersperse this drive time […]

(Not Yet) Solarized

I don’t know what it is about meetings recently, but they are not being conducted to my satisfaction. I went to one on Thursday, knowing the venue was an extremely poor choice — but it was worse than I was expecting. On the one hand, this was good, because it was a meeting to (ostensibly) […]

Stranger in a Strange Land

Have you ever read The Phantom Tollbooth? It’s a children’s book, perhaps young adult, by Norton Juster. I first encountered it when an excerpt appeared in my sixth-grade reading book, and sometime later I acquired the entire book. It’s one of my favorites, and I still enjoy reading it. I highly recommend it. In the […]

Travels with TL: Denver or Bustang

This is not actually about a travel I’ve taken, but one I am planning to take. And I know it is ill-advised to advertise one’s absence from home on the internet while the absence is taking place, but would-be thieves be forewarned: everyone else, particularly the vicious guard animals, is staying in place. This was […]

I Yam What I Yam

Food would not be food if it were not lightly sautéed in disdain and sprinkled with thin shavings of judgment. –Alexandra Petri It doesn’t seem to matter what I eat — it is wrong. But it probably doesn’t matter what you eat, either — it is also wrong. Yesterday, for whatever reason, my joints really […]