Despite my burgeoning interest in mountain biking, it is still Dan’s domain. This week Dan took a personal day and drove an hour north to Red Mountain Open Space to get his bike dirty. Don’t recognize the bicycle? It’s Dan’s newest, which he built up from a Crust frame. It sports fat tires and is […]
Read MoreOne year in Colorado: what a weekend looks like these days
Somehow, one full year has passed since we arrived in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have been trying to imagine how I might describe the way our lives have changed in this past year, but to encapsulate it all seems impossible. Instead I have decided to lay out the anatomy of our weekend, a snapshot of […]
Read MoreA mountain bike named Ginsburg
No, that is not the name of a play I am reviewing. After a sexist encounter at the REI where I bought my first mountain bike — the first clerk made me feel invisible, but the experience ended well once I was turned over to a second staffer — I decided to name my first […]
Read More[Review] Men on Boats (The Catamounts)
There is an old Slate article that I am particularly fond of: a mother is reading The Hobbit to her 5-year-old daughter, and the daughter gets it into her head that Bilbo Baggins is a girl. She won’t be dissuaded, and insists that her mom read the story “the right way.” The mother says the pronoun switch was […]
Read More[Review] The Constant Wife (DCPA)
At intermission my husband leaned over to me to say, “This could have been written today. And it would still be shocking.” After all, The Constant Wife wasn’t penned recently; W. Somerset Maugham wrote the play in 1926, nearly a century ago. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) calls the play a “cheeky satire [that] […]
Read MoreIce cream flights in RiNo
I have wonderful friends. Kris and Jen are two of my best friends from Ohio. They have already visited us in Colorado once before, and this weekend we were able to catch up when a wedding brought them to Denver. In Cincinnati, our favorite way to spend time together was to choose a new restaurant […]
Read MoreRed Truck Beer
Recently at our gym, the coach asked us all to name our favorite sport or activity. My friend Linda declared her favorite to be riding bikes to breweries. This week we saddled up to try out Red Truck Beer, a new location for the Canadian-based brewery. Pros for Red Truck: The beautiful, airy venue and […]
Read MoreBeginner Birding Hike, Lory State Park
Obsession-wise, I go from zero to 60 in a snap. Dan knows to be careful with potential new hobbies, because I can’t be trusted to keep them casual. Our closest state park, Lory, organizes interesting programming that we take advantage of whenever we’re free — which, frankly, isn’t all that often. (I believe our last […]
Read MoreVedauwoo
This is exactly the kind of day Dan and I imagined when we moved to Colorado. Early autumn weather, a spontaneous hike with friends, random boulder climbing along the way. Kate and her family had a free afternoon and a hike in mind: Turtle Rock Trail, Vedauwoo Recreation Area, southern Wyoming. Turtle Rock Trail is […]
Read MoreTime for a new tattoo (you’ll get it later)
It didn’t take long for me to find my way back to Magnetic Tattoo. So far, I have racked up four very small tattoos on my inner arms. (Stories about the most recent two are here.) With each one I have gained a bit more confidence — and fallen further in love with having art […]
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