As adventurous as this blog can make me appear, here’s the truth: it takes me a long time to pump myself up to try something new. When I post about museums and theater and street art, that is my comfort zone. When it comes to anything outdoors, anything that requires strength or agility or stamina… […]
Read MoreNerds out, birds out
You know how people are fascinated by their own bizarre dreams, but no one else cares to hear them? I fear the same may be true for birdwatching. Alas, I couldn’t help but throw a few pictures up from my birding adventure. It was simply gorgeous outside. I haven’t lost interest in birding, it’s just […]
Read MoreThese are a few of my favorite things
I made out like a bandit at Christmas! Because I love reading what my friends have received, I am sharing a few of my favorites (and in case you’re wondering, I don’t make a nickel off of sharing these): Field Notes Almost every year, I find a few of these tucked in my stocking. Field […]
Read MoreReturn of the Christmas lasagna
Can you feel it in the air? It’s lasagna time. Last year I wrote about Dan and my “$100 lasagna,” our delicious Christmas tradition now it its 8th year (we think). Every Christmas I say it would be so easy to make lasagna again some time during the year but we never end up doing […]
Read MoreMeow Wolf: The House of Eternal Return
I have been waiting for an experience like Meow Wolf. I am the kind of nerd who publishes articles about how we overuse the word “immersive” in art. It is not that I think everything needs to be immersive — far from it — but I dislike how we bandy that word about and render it meaningless. […]
Read MoreDreams come true, yes they do, in Santa Fe
You know us, always itching for a road trip. This time it was Dan’s idea: 7 hours straight down I-25 to Santa Fe, New Mexico, just a few days before Christmas. He knew I have been itching to visit Meow Wolf, an immersive art experience that is opening a new location in Denver in a […]
Read MoreGarden of Lights
Finally, my hunt is over. Dan and I have visited a few local Christmas light shows and none of them have cut the mustard. I won’t name names, but we have been underwhelmed by two or three of the area’s most popular light displays. Luckily, we happened across Garden of Lights at The Gardens on […]
Read MoreToday’s my Yetiversary
About a year ago, I gave away a bookcase. The neighbors who adopted the bookcase invited me to visit their gym. I shrugged, said my maybes — but with the forthright style I’ve come to think of as their own, Linda and Tony asked, “How about Tuesday at 12:30?” I was adrift a year ago, […]
Read MoreOn Rower, on Lifter, on Baker, on Blitzen
It’s not that I’ve taken a break from blogging so much as I’ve taken a break from… leaving the house. In early November, Dan and I flew home to Cincinnati to see family for the holidays. In the 3 weeks since then, our lives have been fairly quiet — relatively speaking. Here are a few […]
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