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Wreath-making workshop at Intersect Brewing
This year, for the first time in my life, I have a fake Christmas tree. Dan and I will be traveling for the holidays and it didn’t make sense to have a live tree in the house just to get rid of it long before Christmas or come home to a dead tree. Because of […]
Camp Christmas
“Not for the faint of festivity, this over-the-top indoor immersive installation turns the holiday spirit all the way up with mesmerizing displays of decorations that shift time and reality. Camp Christmas is Denver’s newest holiday experience, where yuletide traditions of the past and present get merrily mashed together in a massive 10,000-square-foot wonderland. It’s not just […]
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Recently my ride-or-die/neighbor/friend Linda suggested a day-trip to Golden, Colorado to visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Our timing worked out perfectly — we happened to choose a bright and sunny afternoon following a days of snow to make our 1.5-ish hour trek to Golden. The museum is small but mighty! Since we arrived right […]
Fort Collins Book Fest 2019
Each year, the Fort Collins Book Fest chooses a theme — last year was “The Big Think,” and the 2019 events centered around “Food for Thought.” The Fest invited cookbook authors, hosted “foodie walks,” and offered workshops revolving around tea, chocolate, whiskey and more. I took part in three events at this year’s Book Fest. […]
Fire Ecology Tour
When it rains, all of the areas that divert that water into a single source (for example, into a river) form a watershed. Hurray, someone finally explained that to me! This weekend, the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed hosted a Fire Ecology Tour, yet another in a long line of citizen-friendly science events that […]
Curling 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 […]
High Hops Brewery & The Windsor Gardener
It basically goes without saying that anywhere you find yourself in Colorado, you’re a mile from a brewery. When Linda, Tony and I found ourselves in Windsor for a bike tour, Linda suggested a detour to High Hops. I don’t drink beer myself — just don’t have a taste for it — but man have […]
Pedaling the Poudre
In Colorado, water is king. There are countless coalitions, clubs and events meant to protect our precious water and educate the public about its importance. It’s truly incredible. One such organization is the (deep breath) Cache de Poudre River National Heritage Area, and the Poudre Heritage Alliance (PHA) which serves it. A few times per […]
May 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 […]
25 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 […]