Steve’s friend Ted Kerasote, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award, has a new one at B&N I could not resist. Merle’s Door, Lessons from a Freethinking Dog, is parts memoir, polemic and canine biography. It is also an unapologetic love story and, I admit, a tear-jerker there toward the end. Merle is a mostly-lab …
Mirror Image
Hat tip to Arthur Wilderson for this story, a write-up about a remarkably similar phenomenon in England to what we’ve been discussing over here lately: nostalgia for free-range children who spend their days outdoors. Good title, too: Rearing Children in Captivity At the school gates of Birchington Primary School, on the Kent coast, a group …
Going On About Helen
I’m going to break a small confidence and relate a thing Steve said to me in the privacy of his kitchen. I was going on about Helen MacDonald, drunk after our detour to the Golden Spur and full of good meat from the Bodio larder. A point at which, in other words, I was babbling. …
Looking for that Pot of Gold
A thunderstorm just before sunset Monday night gave us this big double rainbow as seen from our deck. It and the pyrotechnics of the storm provided dinnertime entertainment for us and Mr. & Mrs. Peculiar (Jackson and Nikki) who we were delighted to have as house guests. The sunset wasn’t too bad, either.
Frozen Dead Guy is a Hot Commodity
The Denver Post ran this oddball local story today. In the small town of Nederland in the mountains west of Boulder, Bredo Morstoel, who died in 1989, lies frozen in a metal coffin, awaiting the day when medical science has advanced enough to revive him and fix the heart ailment that killed him. Morstoel’s grandson …
Why We Blog II
Well, I guess it’s my turn. It may sound a little strange, but at least to some extent I blog because I was invited. Though I had read blogs and commented on them for ages, I really had no idea of doing it myself until Steve asked me to post here. Now it’s hard to …
2Blowhards
We have so been outdone.
Why We Blog
Darren Naish pricked us with the latest self-replicating blogger bug: Why blog? So I’ll start our reply (a brief one in my case) and let Reid and Steve follow up. First, this question is worthy of a real essay. Mary’s was wonderful from a few months back, though I couldn’t find it to link (Mary?). …
Decline and Fall of….Fairfax, Co., VA?
During my father’s tour of duty at the Pentagon, a two-plus year rotation in which we lived in civilian housing and I attended public school, I got a rare taste of American pie. Prior to this, and afterwards until Dad retired, I knew only the cloistered and comfortable life of a military brat on bases …
St. Mary’s Glacier
On Father’s Day I was given the opportunity to pick what I wanted to do for the day, so I picked a hike in the mountains. We decided to go to St. Mary’s Glacier in Clear Creek County near the community of Alice. It’s not a tough trail, only 1-1/2 to 2 miles round trip. …