Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
“Not for the faint of festivity, this over-the-top indoor immersive installation turns the holiday spirit all the way up with mesmerizing displays of decorations that shift time and reality. Camp Christmas is Denver’s newest holiday experience, where yuletide traditions of the past and present get merrily mashed together in a massive 10,000-square-foot wonderland. It’s not just […]
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After visiting the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum this week, I was inspired to bring my quilts out of storage: two quilts that my great-grandmother Jean (my father’s grandmother) made for me. The first was gifted to me in 1993, when I was 10. The pieces are all hand-embroidered and each includes the name of one […]
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Recently my ride-or-die/neighbor/friend Linda suggested a day-trip to Golden, Colorado to visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Our timing worked out perfectly — we happened to choose a bright and sunny afternoon following a days of snow to make our 1.5-ish hour trek to Golden. The museum is small but mighty! Since we arrived right […]
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have spent the past week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on a business trip to facilitate focus groups on behalf their orchestra. The Winston-Salem Symphony has a brand new music director, Tim Redmond, and while in town I had the honor of sitting in on the very first rehearsal […]
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Dan and I have been in Winston-Salem, North Carolina all week, with Dan working remotely while I facilitate focus groups for a local arts organization. My friend Mary Beth insisted that we make time for SECCA (pronounced Seeka), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts. The galleries were illuminating, including the eye-widening Owens Daniels exhibition — […]
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Each year, the Fort Collins Book Fest chooses a theme — last year was “The Big Think,” and the 2019 events centered around “Food for Thought.” The Fest invited cookbook authors, hosted “foodie walks,” and offered workshops revolving around tea, chocolate, whiskey and more. I took part in three events at this year’s Book Fest. […]
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When it rains, all of the areas that divert that water into a single source (for example, into a river) form a watershed. Hurray, someone finally explained that to me! This weekend, the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed hosted a Fire Ecology Tour, yet another in a long line of citizen-friendly science events that […]
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Dan and I both had work to accomplish near Denver, so we decided to drive the hour south one night early and make a date night of it. We saw Hustlers and enjoyed milkshakes at our first Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, then burned up some hotel points at The Source Hotel and Market Hall in the […]
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Everybody by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a… hm. You see, it… huh. It’s a stumper, at least when it comes to describing it. It’s the kind of stumper you should see. Based on a 15-century morality play called Everyman, Everybody is a ponderous and philosophical exploration of life and death, posing chewy questions about what […]
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Even *I* can’t eat dinner at 4pm. Okay, we all know that’s a lie. However, when an errand that Dan and I were running in Longmont, Colorado wrapped up early, we decided to visit a local cider shop to kill an hour until the much more respectable 5pm dinnertime. Even though cider options seem to […]
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