Selling Yourself
Despite my best intentions and a pitbull of a wife that has spent over four decades trying to change this part of me (who am I kidding, most of me – I cannot blame her), I remain the ultimate procrastinator. I mean, think about it, I left writing to the very last minute, and I […]
Getting The Word Out
In the beginning was the Word. John 1:1. Now good old John was speaking metaphorically about the Word being God. A really interesting analogy. Think about it, everything we do here as humans, all of our creations, begins with a thought, an idea. A word. Even the idea of the Judeo-Christian God, did not really […]
Bukowski’s Rules
I discovered the writer, Charles “Hank” Bukowski, towards the end of the last century. I was introduced to his work by my friend and literary mentor, Colin Broderick, who is presently in the process of finalizing a wonderful film script about the man. It’s brilliant. Hank B was a gritty, self-taught, writer. He wrote poetry, […]
Spiders and Rainbows
I cannot help it. I am an eternal optimist. And by that nature, I’m always looking for signs that support that outlook. I find a lot of support in nature. I won’t kill anything that doesn’t directly and imminently threaten my existence. Not even a fly. Now during the summer months there is no avoiding […]
Anna And Claire’s Hat
I have often mentioned how I am lucky enough to have the greatest barber in the galaxy providing me with tonsorial splendor here in Berthoud. Anna Kaye Martinez-Hernandez. She works out of the Rustic Rose Beauty Lounge right there by the Berthoud Post Office. During the hour plus hair-care event every month I get to […]
Rambo Has A Name – Mike Ramsey
Woke up this morning to see a whole bunch of comments by new, first time blog readers from all over. (Clarence “Doc” Stillman, Claire’s Theorem remains unchallenged given that – as established by the time stamps – there were never more than 5 readers reading the blog at any given moment!) The first new addition […]
Rambo
I love meeting interesting people. Organically. Yesterday, as Lisa and I pulled into the parking lot of Einstein’s Bagels in Loveland, we saw a group of bikers getting off their steel mounts. They were all tall. All wearing club leather. I think it said “Indians.” Three of them, a silver haired man and two blond […]
Two Tommys Making Hay While The Sun Shines
Given this is the last long weekend of the summer and its unofficial end (but see the Fall Equinox – https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/autumnal-equinox.html) I decided to take advantage of the extra day and the nice weather to stock up on Mule provisions for the fall. Now the most important thing after a summer of free range mule […]
Introducing Sherlock & Jasper McCaffrey
Yesterday, Georgie and Luke drove South below Denver to the home of member of a rescue organization and retrieved two sibling puppies from the same litter that had been recently recovered from a kill shelter in Missouri. The tan one is Sherlock and the dark and white one is Jasper. Given that L&G are in […]
Nocturnal Sojourns
I really do hope it’s a sojourn and not another permanent shift in my circadian rhythm. I’ve never slept more that 6 hours, except after my bachelor party when I was awoken with a very bad hangover the following night by my extremely worried fiance. I guess I picked the wrong week . . . […]