Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
Dan and I had the fortune to be invited to my niece’s first birthday party. The “pancakes and pajamas” party gathered Fiona’s friends and family on Zoom. We got to watch Fiona be spoiled rotten by gifts, then toddle around her living room. She’s becoming quite the little walker. (Sometimes I can’t believe that my […]
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I have officially gotten more tattoos (two) than haircuts (one) since March. (Sidebar: If you’ve been to a tattoo parlor, you know the good ones were some of the most sanitized places you could go, even before the pandemic. Getting a tattoo is not a zero-risk situation, but with everyone in masks and no more […]
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Let me introduce you to my pandemic tattoo. When Dan and I spent a week in Grand Junction, Colorado, we fell head-over-heels in love with Gambel’s quails. Neither of us had seen them before — they mostly live in the Southwest, but Grand Junction has a very desert-like climate — and there was a family […]
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Lately there hasn’t been much to report. Dan and I keep busy with our respective jobs, and my MFA program is off to a great start. We both ride our bikes to stay active — Dan more than me, of course. Other than that it’s meals at home, movies at home, reading at home… the […]
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Happy birthday, Dan! Dan’s birthday is one week after mine, and we almost always travel as our gift to one another. This year is a little different of course, but we managed a socially-distant trip to Grand Lake, Colorado and spent his birthday paddling Monarch Lake in our packrafts. Perhaps you can tell from the […]
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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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