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 […]
Read MoreBirthday ink
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 […]
Read MoreCurling 101
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 […]
Read MoreFort Collins Fringe Festival
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 […]
Read MoreFort Collins Fringe is coming
When I lived in Cincinnati, my friends all knew that if they wanted to spend time with me during the Cincinnati Fringe Festival their best bet would be to join me for a show. When my schedule would allow, I would catch roughly 30 shows during the Festival’s two-week run; it is very difficult to […]
Read MoreClimb time at the new gym
The past two weeks have been full of transition and change after my beloved CrossFit gym shuttered its doors. Our coach was hired on at a much larger gym nearby, so most of the old gym’s members have migrated to Miramont North to follow him. It has been an enormous change, moving from Yeti Cave […]
Read MoreMay the Fourth be with you
Happy Star Wars Day! Dear Colorado: where are my nerds? I sorely miss working at the Cincinnati Comic Expo, I don’t have a roleplaying group in Fort Collins and I have barely touched a board game in a year and a half. Something’s gotta give! On Star Wars Day (May the Fourth…), the Poudre River […]
Read MoreCincinnati reunions + Evo
Above: Danny and his partner Russ. I know Danny from Cincinnati, but we’ve gotten to know each other better since we both moved to Colorado within a month of each other. Danny’s out in Boulder now, but he and Russ were visiting Fort Collins and had time for dinner at Restaurant 415. Dan and I […]
Read More25 miles in the books
Last summer, Linda and Tony took a group bike tour through Belgium and the Netherlands through a locally-based travel company, ExperiencePlus. Linda and Tony loved the tour and the company, and recently invited Dan and me to join a 25-mile group ride across Fort Collins that ExperiencePlus was organizing. Before this, my longest ride clocked […]
Read MoreBaking lessons with Linda
When Dan and I decided to move, the best decision we made wasn’t in choosing Fort Collins, or even Colorado in general. The best decision we made was moving three doors down from Linda and Tony. I like people who have passion and knowledge. I *love* people who want to share that passion and knowledge. […]
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