On March 12 I saw so many movies about women, I was beside myself with happiness. It was the Voices Film Festival at the Denver Film Center on Colfax. Although the Denver Film Society has been doing...
Dana Romanoff has been traveling to Oaxaca since 2006, photographing the families left there in the wake of migration to the United States. She went there because she had been following the stories...
Savoring quiet—that’s what I did recently at Walden Ponds/Sawhill Ponds, a gravel mine turned wildlife reserve in east Boulder County. Mine was the only vehicle in the snowy parking lot, around...
I heard of Rodale’s Plastic-Free Challenge on the blog My Plastic Free Life. Like Zero Waste, Plastic-Free is an aspiration, not a reality. For example, I posted something on Facebook about the...
Fifteen years ago I injured my back while I was trying to strengthen it at the gym. I had just finished doing 75 pounds on the stomach machine (the one with the bar against your chest that you push...
Sometimes I think, What if I go out the door to go birding and there’s a revolution before I get home? What supplies can I carry in my coat to ensure I’ll survive? I remember reading...
I’ve always been afraid of heights. I don’t think I got it from either of my parents. But in my forties, it has become much worse. In my twenties, when I was an exchange student at the...
I took so many cool pictures last Saturday at the Denver Zombie Crawl that I decided to put a bunch of ’em up on the blog. There were many other great zombies on the 16th Street Mall, but...
Last Friday I attended my first writing conference in years. Oddly enough, the very first seminar I attended suggested that the novel I’m writing may very well be a paranormal romance novel. (A...
For two years I’ve been a member of HouseCarers, a service that unites people who need housesitters with those who want to be the warm body in the house while its owners travel. I’ve...
This morning I walked the Santa Fe Trace trail behind my sister’s house, armed with one of my father’s canes. I took it not to lean on but to use as a weapon against any cobwebs that...
Finally this month I called an electrician to fix a switch that’s been going out for months. I come from a long line of procrastinators, but that’s not the only reason I took so long: I...
The day my brother flew back to Kansas City, Todd and I drove to Angel Fire, New Mexico. Bradleys from Texas and Colorado were meeting there for a family reunion. From Friday morning until Monday...
It seems fitting that the first post on a blog recently retooled for the anxious middle-aged adventuress should be about losing things. I have an active imagination. It’s one of the things that...