Category: How To
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Eating dirt
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 7, 2024 There was a story circulating in our family that my paternal grandmother, who died of complications of diabetes, used to eat dirt as some sort of health remedy. After my father died years later, my 60-something mother told me and my husband after dinner that she herself had…
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Spice dump
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 24, 2024 Growing up, there was a single spice rack screwed onto our apricot-colored kitchen wall, the same kind virtually every family in our neighborhood had in the 60s and 70s, with a set of 12 spices that never seemed to diminish over the course of many years, including things…
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Close quarters
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 3, 2020 After my dad retired from the U.S. Army in the mid 1960s, he went to work for Boeing in Seattle, which was not an easy transition for an officer and a man like him. Less order, less control, more ambiguous freedom. I remember him coming home and…
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Dog drill sergeant
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 7, 2020 Where I left off regarding the new puppy was deep in reverie on all the positive feedback we humans never got enough of, and how, if only it had been there every step of the way like it should be for a dog, we might have a…
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Mr. Clean, explain thyself
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 4, 2019 It’s spring, and the smell of chemicals is in the air. From a visceral place located deep within baby boomers’ brains (the olfactory bulb of the limbic system), Mr. Clean’s face pops to mind, his smiling eyes, bald head, hoop earrings, crossed arms and fiercely positive demeanor. It’s…
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Packing hacks
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 7, 2016 The only perfect bag I ever pack is the carry-on for a France trip, carefully engineered (by me, at my brief zenith) to contain not only clothes but gifts for the entire French family. This is the same bag that gets mixed up in Denver and ends up in…
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