Storyteller

Tony Hillerman died yesterday at age 83.
I never met him though I saw him at a couple of events. I feel sad that he’s gone, because I would have welcomed another of his stories, long or short, about Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn and their world. The last time I felt this way was when I heard [...]

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Today’s Stats

Total hours I have served to date in 2008 as a volunteer ambassador at the airport, according to the program’s scheduling/tracking system: 116:45.
My ranking as a customer reviewer on amazon.com under the new system unveiled this week: 784. Yikes, I am now a “Top 1000 Reviewer” on that site. 
My “classic reviewer rank” on amazon.com, which [...]

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It’s official.

I’ve lost my mind. Next Saturday I am going to embark on an impractical, time-consuming and totally unnecessary project that will last for exactly one month. I am going to write a novel. OK, the first draft of a novel. 
And the really scary thing?
I’m not in this alone. It’s been done by thousands of people, [...]

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Gazing into another time

A little piece in today’s newspaper led me to this blog. The short version: photographer finds excellent photographs from the 1930’s and 40’s among the other offerings at an estate sale and buys as many as she can. Then she follows up and finds that they were taken by Ellet N. Shepherd (1901 – 1965), [...]

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Done

Voted early, voted once. This is my ballot in its mail-in envelope on my desk last Tuesday morning. 
I dropped it into a mailbox on my lunch hour.
Now, I wish all the political commercials were also done and gone. But I think there may be just a few people who haven’t voted yet and of course [...]

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Colorado Ballot Issues for Dummies

I’m on Ken Gordon’s email list. Ken, the retiring (term limited) Majority Leader of the Colorado Senate, always has a thoughtful take on issues and events. Not to mention a welcome sense of humor. Even if I hadn’t worked with him when we were young public defenders, I’d be sorry that he will no longer [...]

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Treats

Why don’t I listen to my own good sense? Saturday I found myself thinking that lately the quality of my daily diet has declined. I’ve been hitting the sweets too hard and “indulging” too often in fatty snacky foods. With my trip to Thailand only 60 days away, I told myself “my real treat is [...]

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Memorable

I just read a terrific short story, and I think you should too: Blue Waltz, by Brenda WIlson Wooley.
It’s available online here - in Wanderings magazine.

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Facts, feelings, and bailout bubbles

I blogged the other day about my feelings, and now for the facts. Here’s a succint online article that summarizes US government bailouts of private sector firms/industries for the past 30 years. You’ll have to visit the site to see what the bubbles mean. Hint: they read from left to right and show the relative size [...]

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