I was greeted downstairs this morning by the sight of Tracy doing the dishes without a shirt on. Walking around the house half naked is my job, so I asked what on Earth compelled him to steal my mojo. It was only 9 am, but turns out he’d already ridden his bike all the way […]
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Lessons from Two Nights of Phish
There’s a group of four guys, about my age (50s), about my background (east coast, prep-school, real and quasi smart-ass/intellectuals), who spent their high school years in about the same way I did (when not seeing Grateful Dead shows, then in someone’s parents’ basement playing in or listening to a jam band). Those four guys […]
‘Twas the Night before Christmas, and all through the Apartment Building …
Let me get this out of the way: it’s been a rough December, for so many people, and for us, too. Although I bet no one’s as bummed as these neighbors whose sticky, fake blood signs stained their front door. They can’t escape from Halloween even now. Yes, we’re still in the apartment. No, we […]
Sleepy Snowshoeing
My snowshoeing experiences have mirrored my mood lately: lots of (literal and figurative) ups and downs, but I keep pushing on, knowing I’m learning each time I go out, getting better at this life business each trip around sun. Whatever. No matter how I try to write that I sound like a Hallmark card in […]
Leafy Daytrip and New Podcast Episode
First off, Finn and I have released the third episode of our podcast, How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? that we made when I visited him a few weeks ago. This time we talk about how we each got our differing music tastes, with him developing a penchant for genres pretty foreign […]
From Moosappointment to a Cowboy Count
I have dreams of things I’m going to see in new places, but I’ve learned, of course, that the cool things you see are what you’re not expecting. For example, when I was in Alaska and in the Yukon summer before last, I had a lot of moospectations. I mean, there were signs everywhere telling […]
How to Capture the Colorado I See
A friend and I had a conversation about the genre of realism; we were talking about painting, but really what we said applies to photography and writing, I think. Our discussion: What is the value of realism in art, and how do you achieve it? Her first reaction was that realism in painting these days […]
West Slope Is the Best Slope
West Slope Is the Best Slope is something people say who live on the Western Slope of Colorado, which I now know (because I’ve asked Tracy a million times) means west of the Continental Divide—and not east of it, which is called the Front Range. We were on the Western Slope at Colorado National Monument […]
The Drama of Colorado National Monument
We’re at the very western edge of Colorado, at another amazing national monument. Feels like we’re seeing one after another of these places while they’re still protected. From Our Campsite Tracy scored a spot at Saddlehorn Campground, which is in the monument and therefore tricky for two reasons. You have to pass through roughly blasted […]
While This, Then That
Last pictures while looking here, and thoughts while seeing that.
