The Carousel of Happiness for my kids, Joe & Emi and for Scott Harrison and the seasons they go round and round/ and the painted ponies go up and down/ we’re captive on the carousel of time/ – Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game In Joe’s...
there’s a crumpled tissue in the middle of the hiking trail flitting slightly in the wind like the petals of a false flower I see it from far away this bit of white breaking up the spring landscape colors this little litter left in the dirt I...
NEDERLAND - The annual bird migration is well into full swing these days, with upwards of millions of birds visible on nightly weather radar as they traverse the skies above. Each passing week brings more and more species to their summer...
driving down the canyon is like fast forwarding time jumping through the ends of the long mountain winter and right into late spring where the tulips have already come and gone and the lawns are ankle high and shining green the mountains are...
Effervescent Gemini is at the center of the stars. The twins, champions of neuroplasticity, enliven our mind and brain. Lucky Jupiter has been in intelligent sign for a year. On...
TUNGSTEN VALLEY - With our weather heating up in another CO2-driven climate-change season and Wildfire Awareness Month, we’ll soon be battling wildland fires. What’s the status of Peak to Peak firefighting preparedness? The first line of defense...
HYGIENE - When we met at Rabbit Mountain in my last Discover Colorado column, I mentioned I had much I wanted to confess to you, my dear reader. Today, I will start with the small details of a very long confession. First, however, I will...
maybe we’ve got ghosts all wrong because once somebody’s gone I’ve never seen them again but I am still here thinking on how everything’s different now haunting the same places we all used to go remember when we all went through the car wash twice...
I got a letter years ago from a man who said he liked the poetry I write that he hasn’t ever liked poetry because it always makes things more complicated than they are but that my poems about living in the mountains about working with my...
LONGMONT There is so much I wish to confess to you, my dear reader. However, all shall be revealed in due course. In the meantime, let’s clear our heads at the Rabbit Mountain Open Space at the easternmost point of the foothills in the underrated...
in the basement is the water heater it is new and is a dull grey and was just put in by my friend who is a plumber our old one was broken and for months we suffered short showers and shivering exits into cold air it is the end of the day now and I...
BOULDER COUNTY - We are incredibly blessed to enjoy such an abundant variety of wildlife in our little slice of Rocky Mountain paradise. As the weather warms, that variety increases with a number of species making their way into the high country...
people are dying in the hospital next door to the quick stop but right now we are alive and I need gas and so we stop and get the snacks that we know will kill us and the stuff that makes...
The Garden of Earthly Delights opens its gate as the Sun enters Taurus on the 19th of April. Both clever Mercury and artistic Venus have finished their retrograde cycles. Eclipse season has ended. Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd, bringing...
PEAK TO PEAK - When it comes to wildfire, there is a saying that is often shared among mountain residents that it’s not a matter of if you and your home will be impacted, but when. Since 2018, Colorado has experienced four of the five largest...
When I reflect on days I allowed stress to take over my body, I experience a great deal of regret. Yet, within regret, I find the opportunity to self-reflect and evolve. The challenge for me is finding the right time to do so. I walked...
I once read a paragraph in a book that’s stuck like splinter in the grey of my brain in essence it said that we look at fish in water we look at birds in the sky and see them as free but that they are not free for they are slaves to...
ST. VRAIN STATE PARK - One of my favorite signs of the transition to the warmer days of spring is the seasonal migration that brings all manner of birds to their Colorado summer home. With my love of photographing raptors in flight, one of the...
Missy and Suzanne had been best friends since their husbands met over 30 years ago. Marriages, children, sick parents, moves, renovations, churches—they’d been through it all together. “But now,” said Missy, “now I don’t know what to...
there is a box full of noise it is small enough to hold in my hand sometimes it feels like the box and its noise is all that matters I go to it when I am happy when I am sad when I want to be happy when I want to be sad when I...