Telluride Daily Planet,  Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The winter solstice has teetered, a new year is on its way, and that means palettes of shrink-wrapped calendars will soon be handed out like Bingo cards to all of us, the day-trippers of time. There must be other people out there like me, yearning for something completely different:…

Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, September 24, 2009 Fall, 2003. “This time of year, Colorado is quite spectacular. We have aspen trees swathing the hillsides doing what they do best: quaking and turning yellow. My mom talked about aspens the way she talked about lilacs — with the sort of awe reserved for exotics — plants that…