To Dad
Dear Dad: I know you have no earthly way of reading this. Even if you did, you probably wouldn’t. You always said reading put you to...
Of Mother Nature & Mean People (and geese)
Luka Blue looks out the bedroom window at the goose making her nest along the pond’s shore. Somewhere her mate is patrolling the...
Luka Blue & Life in 2022
This is one of the first photos I took of Luka when she came to live with The Weed and me on Dec. 3, 2021. She's grown up a lot but still...
Of Anniversaries & Adding Up the Years
Hotel Boulderado, June 22, 1996. (I didn't stutter.) A good day with some great cake! —Three apartments. —One cantankerous cat. (R.I.P...
Things that go SPLOOSH in the night
As the Super Pink Moon rose above the neighborhood, something ominous landed in the pond behind our house. Not. Cool. (I didn’t take this...
In nearly 10 minutes …
A lot can happen in nearly 10 minutes. Right before the verdict was handed down in Minneapolis today, I looked out my living room window....
Situation Quarantine: I am changed
Exhibit A: The gruesome text I sent The Weed this morning with a few purposely placed BAND•AIDS. I sent The Weed a pretty gruesome text...
Of Boulder life and spring blooms
Just as my friends and family were reporting their first and second doses of the COVID vaccine, these flowers bloomed in our front yard....
I’m no Disney princess
This black-capped chickadee is the only volunteer so far interested in serving in the army of winged beasts devoted to me. As you might...
Of eyesight and the crows
Damn it, Nibbles! It turns out I’ve been looking at the world all wrong for the past year. I visited the optometrist yesterday and...
