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Here’s a hint for all of you out there – don’t wait two weeks to blog about your vacation.  It takes longer to conjure up what happened, and it’s not nearly as much fun.  However, it’s also kind of nice to go back and try to reconstruct the days. (Full disclosure: long blog entry ahead, proceedContinueContinue reading “The Grand Colorado Adventure, Parts II and III”

Astute readers will note that Part II of the Grand Colorado Adventure has not been blogged upon yet; never fear, it’s coming.However, I feel the need for a little rant.Last night, I attended a free performance by Huey Lewis and the News, one of my favorite bands from childhood.  In the mid-80’s when their albumsContinueContinue reading “If This is It?”

“You need an adventure, not a vacation.” The friend who casually said this to me probably doesn’t know that I have taken it as a kind of mantra.  It perfectly described why I kept wanting to do a national park trip.  And it’s led to me being here, in a bustling coffee shop in the Rockies.ContinueContinue reading “Grand Colorado Adventure, Part I”

Blessings is a word I don’t use very often.  Mostly because it smacks of religion, and I’m not religious in the traditional (or really any) sense of the word.  It always feels hypocritical for me to use it. However, as I navigated through today, one of those crazy up and down days, that was theContinueContinue reading “Blessings”

I hate politics.  I really do.  It brings out the contrary side of my nature; you know, that teenager-like side that refuses to agree with your parents no matter what they say?  It gives the undeserving far more than their alloted 15 minutes of fame.   Oooh, here’s a new rule that will solve our budgetContinueContinue reading “Thinking small”