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Cognitive Dissonance
My wife and I had the fun of baby sitting our two young granddaughters the other evening while our daughter and her husband got a little time to themselves. After dinner, I suggested to my older granddaughter, Bridgette, that we toddle around the corner to see our...
Enough rice for two Asians
My wife and I were at a Vail condo this past weekend with my daughter Lauren, her husband, Haden, and their one and a half year old daughter, Bridget. Being grandparents is all that it's cracked up to be: a blast. And there are two more grandkids on the way this...
POWER POLITICS
My wife and I drove into Denver the other evening for a night out. As we emerged from the Alameda underpass going north on I-25, several locomotives leading a coal train south thundered by on the tracks just to our right. As we neared Colfax, the Zuni power plant’s...
A SYMBOL OF HOPE? OR A REMINDER OF SHAME?
My wife and I were in the mountains a couple weekends ago. On Saturday, we drove to Sylvan Lake State Park, just south of I-70 at the Eagle exit and one of the crown jewels of our state park system. The trail around the lake is an easy walk and I enjoyed asking the...
Oxymorons
Jumbo shrimp. Sweet sorrow. Open secret. Seriously funny. Liquid gas. Recreation industry. My wife and I were in Vail over the weekend. Something called the "GoPro Mountain Games" was packing them in. "GoPro Heros" are those small video cameras that some folks...
Creating my own blog site
For a guy nearly eligible for Social Security, this is pretty techie stuff! At least my daughter was impressed-who, for this kind of thing, relies almost entirely on her VERY techie husband.