My scribbles about Denver’s Confluence Park made the semi-finals in a writing contest on the travel website Trazzler.com. A victory in this round sends me and my calloused pen-steering fingers to New York City with a $10,000 two-week writer-in-residence contract to scrawl 30 trips covering the five boroughs! In order to be considered for this grand-tacular […]
Category Archives: Will Drink the Young Wine
Old School-ed
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Team Firefox, Denver’s 80s dance ensemble (famous for being purposefully “mediocre”), paid an honest tribute to the late King of Pop at the Denver Art Museum’s July mixed-media event Untitled #23 (Old School). Performing a crowd pleasing dance routine to a five song medley with signature Michael Jackson moves from “Rock My World”, “Beat It”, […]
Funnel Cake
Sunday, July 5, 2009
We refused to let another summer pass without hitting the over-priced, carny-food purveying, stomach flip inducing Elitch Gardens amusement park! Highlights include a “video game” ride that slowly carted our group through black light target shooting action (cannot believe this counted as a “ride”), surviving the wooden Twister II, and FUNNEL CAKE!! Glad the park’s […]
Nitrogen & Carbon
Sunday, June 28, 2009
I’m tending two gardens (& two dogs!) solo while the boy is on tour with the band. With the daily rainstorms of late we’re seeing a lot of green out here and I can’t keep up with the yield! So, I’m pushing leafy greens on my loved ones…and learning to compost the scraps courtesy of […]
29 Things to Do Before You’re 30
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Today (in the midst of a work chat) I was slyly slipped a small metal gift box from my dear and wildly thoughtful friend Lunchbox (aka Emily, superstar friend). Inside was a note informing me to put aside the common one day birthday hooray and begin celebrating NOW (two months ahead of schedule) and all […]
Seeing Double
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Team Doppelgänger is a new addition to the Denver Kickball Coalition. A rag tag group full of hi-jinks, we have mastered the art of being only as good as any team we are put up against (and confusing them with our copy cat tailoring skills). Expect tied games and blending in with the competition. We […]
Have Yet to Read Lips
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Note: I am no longer interested in “spending the night in the White House” (was this a sad attempt at a political goal?) nor am I quite sure why I felt it was important to strive to sleep successfully outdoors – “fall asleep in a field” (let’s say I was going for “reaching a zen-like […]
Meet Macushla
Friday, March 20, 2009
Wasn’t doing much here except trying to stay out of Macushla’s spotlight. Photographer Allen Birnbach was in search of character shots, so who better to coerce into posing but my lovely ’85 Z28 – Macushla. She wasn’t even moving in this captured moment and yet I felt like I was flying. I guess that’s what […]
Victory
Sunday, March 1, 2009
This weekend’s visit to the hills was the most successful snowboarding day in my beginner’s career. Connecting turns, picking up speed, and avoiding face plants. Stacey throws the champion fist in air for us all! This champion fist in air belongs to Marty alone. We cower beneath his Sorry! victory punch.
Valentine’s Cadaver
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Way back in 2007 I, uh, romanced the then new boy with a Valentine’s Day autopsy. He was instructed to slice open the the surgically enhanced “typical Valentine’s Day Bear” to surmise a cause of death (my guess – commercialization of affection). Inside the departed’s brain and belly were heart friendly paraphernalia – from a […]