Crazy About Denver: Mystery Machine
What is this box along Speer in Sunken Gardens Park? It looks like some kind of alien about to take [...]
Ekphrastic in Denver
Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art 1311 Pearl Street Denver 303-832-8576From the self-portrait there, I would say Vance Kirkland [...]
All Around Denver, or, a Motley* Post
I have made my living as a copyeditor for some 13 years now, and it has been kicking my butt [...]
MonHaibun: Not Quite Spring
Just outside the Native American Trading Company, they caught my eye. Miniature daffodils, not 6 inches tall. Squeezed into a [...]
Crazy About Denver: Goodbye, Rocky
Today the Rocky Mountain News will publish its last edition. As the website says, the paper was established two years [...]
Le Central: Denver’s Affordable French Restaurant
Le Central 112 East 8th Avenue Golden Triangle, Denver 303-863-8094 Bus directions: take the 0 from 17th and Market On [...]
Native American Trading Company in the Golden Triangle Museum District
Native American Trading Company 213 West 13th Avenue (13th and Bannock) Golden Triangle, Denver 303-534-0771 Bus directions: take the mall [...]
Not an Entirely Intentional Theme Change
Well, the hubby and I were investigating why my About page didn't show up in IE in the old theme, [...]
MonHaibun: Denver Alleys
I have never found anything better than an alley to focus the mind. They call to me the way a [...]
Crazy about Denver: David Brooks Loves Denver
David Brooks wrote an article in the New York Times that called Denver one of "the five most popular American [...]
Cherry Creek Mosey
I've been wanting to walk along Cherry Creek where it borders the western side of the Golden Triangle. I set [...]
Dazzle’s Urban Brunch
Dazzle Supper Club 930 Lincoln Golden Triangle, Denver 303-839-5100 Bus directions: take the 0 from Market Street Station to Broadway [...]
Crazy About Denver: The Horse of the Apocalypse?
Denverites are embroiled in a war over the blue mustang statue on the way to DIA. If you're on Facebook, [...]
Three for Me
In between all the gelt on Saturday was an interlude of peace in the Golden Triangle in Denver. But like [...]
Not Enough Gelt
There's something remarkable about the Golden Triangle—that tiny area can support 3 bike shops, a bunch of lawyers, tons of [...]
MonHaibun: Loveliness I Could Call Forth
Have you ever entered a room of beauty and forgotten what to do with it? Have you ever encountered her [...]
Crazy about Denver
I've decided to turn the weekly Fridays at Restoration Nation posts into a separate website, so that will be coming [...]
Wandering around the Golden Triangle, Denver: The Perimeter, Part 2
Local celebrity alert: I saw John Ferrugia, an award-winning reporter at News 7, walking down Lincoln. He was about the [...]
Wandering around the Golden Triangle,* Denver: The Perimeter, Part 1
I dressed carefully for this trip. I didn't know where I would end up, and I wanted to look presentable [...]
MonHaibun: Getting Things Done
Last Thursday I thought I'd arrive at Monday's desk, a clean page where I could fill in the week's tasks. [...]
Please Spread Far and Wide: Superior Canal Dehiscence Can Be Cured
Today is exactly three weeks after Todd had surgery to fix a rare condition of the inner ear, superior canal [...]
Day 22 of Todd’s Recovery from SCDS Surgery: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?
SCDS is superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a condition of the inner ear. Typical symptoms are autophony (hearing your own voice [...]
MonHaibun: Homecoming
I rate the look of the bayou above the look of an overgrazed plain in winter, but can anything match [...]
Day Fourteen of Todd’s SCDS Surgery, Part 2: The “Longleaf Pine Loop” Hike of Death, Mandeville, LA
SCDS is superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a rare condition of the inner ear. Its main symptoms are autophony (hearing your [...]
Day Fourteen of Todd’s Trip for SCDS Surgery: Todd’s Head, Here and There
Here's the turban they put on Todd's wound after surgery. It was nothing but a bunch of gauze wadded up [...]