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Dad vs curation nation

Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 7, 2018 They come roaring in, these lists upon lists of gifts upon gifts, 10 best or dozen most useful or most quirky or most coveted. Gifts for the cook, the couple, the bookworm, the humbug, the athlete, the gentleman, the millennial, the techie, the bacon lover, the beef lover,…… Continue reading Dad vs curation nation

Day of the Dead — and of the Living

Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 2, 2018 In Santa Fe just last weekend for a visit with friends, my husband and I are lucky enough to have it all: sweet October warmth, blue sky, the coziness of all that adobe and the golden cascade of leaves coming down like coins as we stroll along. Not…… Continue reading Day of the Dead — and of the Living

Aspenglow Wormhole

Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 5, 2018 I arrived in Telluride in late August 1984 during a summer that saw more than 45 days straight of afternoon thunderstorms. Looking out the eastern bunkroom window at the Oak Street Inn (a youth hostel at the time, and the reason I drove into town in the first place),…… Continue reading Aspenglow Wormhole

Red Alerts

Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 7, 2018 In what I’ll call an idiot-savant moment, I recently realized that the reason my email calendars at work weren’t working was that I’d neglected somehow to switch on the obligatory alerts for tasks and events. So, no matter how things I’d entered into the system, the system would…… Continue reading Red Alerts

Satisfied and tickled, too

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 16, 2016 (last essay for this paper!) The only fan letter I ever wrote was to the novelist, Tom Robbins. No eye rolling, please. It’s important to note that I happened to be working for his publisher in New York City at the time (1982), and I happened to be…… Continue reading Satisfied and tickled, too

Birken-stalkings

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 2, 2016 Years and years ago, within the secret-gardened privilege of a liberal arts education — back when, at this particular college, there are no requirements for any sort of mathematics but four years of requirements for cultural history from Greece and Rome to the modern day — I have…… Continue reading Birken-stalkings