Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
Last year I completely missed my local Comic Con due to travel, so this year I marked it on the calendar early. (I have been to one Comic Con event; this is the group which organizes the Kessel Run race in order to raise money for the local library!) The Fort Collins Comic Con takes […]
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I promise, it was not my intention to visit three different art museums over our three days in Wyoming/Montana. Tippet Rise was always our main destination (read that post here), but the Brinton Museum (post here) was a spur-of-the-moment stop. Then, during our Tippet Rise sculpture tour, our fellow tourists all but insisted that we […]
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This is a love story. If you know me, that means the story probably revolves around Dan or art. In this case, it’s both. The adventure began with a TED Talk about an architecture studio that revels in using and showcasing “raw, imperfect materials.” I was already charmed by the ideas in the video when […]
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On the road again, this time en route to Montana! This adventure involves both Dan and my mountain bikes — but more on that complicated adventure tomorrow. Before we could get to Montana, we had a lot of Wyoming to cover. We passed through Cheyenne and Casper before finding ourselves in the Sheridan/Bighorn area. We […]
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Sometimes I believe in magic. When I was debating my next tattoo I was torn between two options: a Russian nesting doll, or a piece of flash. (My artist Cambria has designed all of my tattoos based on my ideas, but she also has her own ideas and designs, “flash.” As someone who basically wants […]
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If you ask someone if they want to try something new, you’ll find there are two types of people in the world: the maybe-next-times and the I-thought-you’d-never-asks. I have the good fortune to be completely surrounded by the latter. When “Learn to Curl” came across my Facebook feed, I knew just who to send the […]
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In Ohio there is a well-known regionalism: when you meet someone knew, you ask them which high school they attended. That doesn’t happen out here in Colorado, probably because almost no one is originally from here. Instead, it seems that every other day I am asked, whether by friends or by strangers, “Have you seen […]
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The 2019 Fort Collins Fringe Festival has wrapped! (For an introduction to this Fringe Festival, read my previous post here.) This was my first year being able to attend my local Fringe in earnest. A few of my favorite moments from this year’s festival, in no particular order: Stalking a bridesmaid around Old Town as […]
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In the words of John Oliver, “Just time for a quick recap of the week.” The day after Dan and I left Vail we turned on our heels and headed to Cincinnati for a half-business-half-pleasure visit. The two of us did not stop moving for three days! Below are a few highlights of our whirlwind […]
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A friend texted me to ask how my trip to Vail was. I sent her the picture above and said you’d have to ask Dan — Vail was mostly a working trip for me, with an extremely fun concert and a goat yoga session thrown in. For the real fun, you’d want to look at […]
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