Meet Kris and Jen Cole, two of Dan and my best friends from home in Cincinnati. The Coles chose the date for their first visit to Colorado before we had even booked our moving truck in Ohio. I’ve been counting the days until their first visit. I feel as though I didn’t take enough pictures […]
Read MoreHow not having cable TV landed me in a bakery
In hindsight, it was unavoidable. Dan and I don’t have cable television. We haven’t for years. We subscribe to Netflix and Hulu, mostly, and rent movies on iTunes. Recently I’ve been wanting to watch PBS’ Great Performances series — but we don’t have access to it. Last night Dan subscribed to Rocky Mountain PBS for […]
Read MoreErica Reid, independent hiker
There are many reasons I have trepidation about hiking alone, and most of them stem from knowing myself very well. I have, for instance, the absolute worst sense of direction of anyone you have ever met. Couple that with my lifelong tendency to daydream even at the most critical of times, and — sorry, I […]
Read MoreBustang still isn’t paying me
Still no sponsorship deal from Bustang, despite my evangelism of their delightful express route from Fort Collins to Denver and back. Man I love that bus. Union Station is dressed for Christmas! I had a few errands to run in Denver this time around. Luckily, one was meeting a new friend at the Denver Art […]
Read MoreCircle of Animals
To mark 4 weeks in Colorado, Dan and I drove to Denver for a docent talk on an Ai Weiwei installation. These bronze animal heads are reinterpretations of zodiac heads that used to form a Chinese “fountain clock” — apparently each animal would spout for one hour, then they would all spout on the hour, […]
Read MoreIt ain’t all lavender lattes
Writing about new adventures in Colorado is easy. In fact, the biggest challenge is keeping up with all of the new shops I visit, the people I meet, the adorable cups of tea I drink. But these visits to cafes and cideries make up such a small part of my life here. I find it nearly […]
Read MoreWait, why is it 75°
This is the kind of day we woke up to today: 70s and sunny, t-shirt weather. Dan starts work again tomorrow and was itching for at least one exploratory bike ride along the Poudre River Trail before his “vacation” ends. He ended up riding ~20 miles and says he has barely scratched the surface of that […]
Read MoreQueen of King Soopers
Grocery shopping saved me today. I took a solo trip while Dan was organizing the garage. Walking around King Soopers — just Cincinnati’s Kroger chain under another name — was incredibly cathartic. Everything was where it should be, laid out exactly like my hometown store. And then there’s retail therapy, of course. Dan and I […]
Read MoreHow to like opera
A few days back, my friend Michelle noticed that I had checked intoLa Bohème at the Cincinnati Opera. She messaged me on Facebook to ask a wonderfully simple and yet terribly complex question: did I have any tips for “how to like opera?” What follows is a slightly expanded version of my response to Michelle. I am […]
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