As much as I love a road trip, I really hate trying to find food on the road. Neither Dan nor I care for most fast food and it’s not easy to locate independent restaurants when you’re not sure where you’ll be at any given time. On a recent trip to Colorado Springs it was completely […]
Read MoreCheyenne Mountain State Park
…is not in Cheyenne, Wyoming; you can find this state park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cheyenne Mountain State Park recently posted an event that piqued my interest: Women’s Beginning Archery. I had dabbled in archery as a hobby in college, but lawd if that wasn’t nearly 15 years ago. Colorado Springs is a schlep for […]
Read MoreWe’re a bicycle family
Slow news week on the Reid front! The weather has been gorgeous and we have been taking advantage of it. Dan had been toying with the idea of buying a Brompton bicycle for a while, mostly because the bike folds up small enough to fit in our car. Today, his “clown bike” arrived. There’s a […]
Read MoreFree Comic Book Day
Since 2002, the first Saturday in May has been Free Comic Book Day (FCBD). Publishers churn out single-issue offerings of a wide variety of comics, a tool that comic shops can use as a festive reason to visit their businesses. FCBD served as a great excuse for Dan and me to visit Gryphon Games & Comics. […]
Read MoreReview: Urinetown (Colorado State University Theatre)
The Colorado State University School of Music, Theatre and Dance closed out its mainstage season with Urinetown, an early 2000s Broadway hit every bit as irreverent as the title suggests. Following a devastating 20-year drought, a corporation has popped up with a bold solution to a water shortage crisis: a ban on private toilets. Citizens […]
Read MoreIn search of Moxie
Hello from historic Louisville, Colorado! Ohio/Kentucky friends, that’s pronounced “Lewisville,” not “Louieville.”) Bread, of all things, brought us to Louisville. A few days ago my neighbor-soulmate Linda mentioned Moxie Bread Company, a Louisville gem she’d read about in 5280 (“Ballad of a Small-Town Bakery,” which is a fantastic read whether you live around here or […]
Read MoreCirque is coming, Cirque is coming!
Years and years ago, I remember hunting for a birthday present for my mom at a Borders Books. I ended up finding that I imagined would be a daughter-of-the-year level gift: a DVD copy of a Cirque du Soleil show. I want to say it was Alegría? At any rate, mom was thrilled — she […]
Read MoreNatural Shocks
On Saturday, Dan and made our way to Boulder to a theater that has quickly become one of my favorites: the Dairy Arts Center. (Read a great article involving the Boulder theatre scene and the Dairy Arts Center at American Theatre.) We were heading to Boulder for a reading of Lauren Gunderson‘s “Natural Shocks.” The […]
Read MoreMy Weird Al wish list
Bear with me, this does have something to do with Colorado! “Weird Al” Yankovic, my idol for the past ~20 years, is currently on his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. Luckily there is a tour stop in Denver — I actually had to buy tickets back in October, before we left Ohio, making this concert […]
Read MoreThe Inventing Room
Dan and I recently caught a show at the DCPA — it ended up being a rather quick play with no intermission and so we found ourselves not quite ready to drive home afterwards. We had no plans, but I remembered Kate telling me to check out The Inventing Room in the SloHi neighborhood, a […]
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