Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
My first bicycle (as an adult), Chesty La Rue, is heading off to greener pastures. I am very lucky to have all that I have. Recently, I saw an item in a Bike Fort Collins newsletter about a bike advocate connecting people who have extra bikes with local immigrants in need of one. Many of […]
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Pandemic be damned: my 37th birthday was a non-stop onslaught of fun. Above: flowers from my dear friend Linda. Below: Snooze‘s OMG French Toast for lunch. (Snooze sent the candle, which worked out nicely because my grandmother insisted that something I ate today was required to have a candle in it.) My brother Ryan and […]
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It’s time to stop talking about it and do it. I haven’t wanted to talk publicly about my return to grad school until I was more sure. After all, I’ve been hemming and hawing about this for at least two years, but I’ve found every excuse not to take the plunge. Then the pandemic happened […]
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Life has been so busy lately that this post is a full week overdue — I nearly skipped posting it altogether, but there is a good chance that my grandmother may be able to access the internet soon for the first time in months, and I know she’ll want to see a few pictures from […]
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Dan and I have a new way to get out of the house while staying socially distant: kayaking. Technically, Minerva is a packraft, not a kayak. Same diff. It inflates in a snap. Why “Minerva”? Recently I’ve been inspired by a piece of local history. In 1910, an entrepreneur named Oliver Toussaint Jackson founded the […]
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We went back! And why not? Our rental is less than a mile from the Monument entrance, and we have a National Parks pass burning a hole in our pocket (thank you, Jan and Phil!). If you missed the first round of Colorado National Monument pictures, you can see those here. P.S. We drove the […]
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Dan and I are wrapping up our week-long work-cation in Grand Junction (read more and see pictures of Colorado National Monument here). Below are a handful of additional photos from the week. The view from our borrowed kitchen: Our rental was advertised as “Frank Lloyd Left”: Dan took me on a bike ride along the […]
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Dan and I take social-distancing very seriously, only venturing out for groceries, exercise, and the occasional curbside pickup. However, as we pass the three month mark of our quarantine, we are finding the need to shake things up in a way that feels safe but sanity-restoring. Dan and I both work remotely, so this week […]
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I recognize that it can be challenging to be my friend if you don’t love being photographed. If you’re ever caught in that position, I hope you can understand how the people I spend my time with are more important than the places that I go. (Linda, in particular, is one of my most important […]
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Dan and my anniversary has come around again! (In 2020: 11 years together, 4 years married.) In this bizarre year, we celebrated in a few different ways. The night before, we made the lasagna that we usually save for Christmas. On our proper anniversary (June 6), we hit the road to the northwestern corner of […]
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