Category: Note to Self: Amuse Thyself

  • Running with keys

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 31, 2014 I am standing on the steps of the Telluride Elementary School watching the six year old in our life step into the same classroom my 21-year-old daughter stepped into a dozen years back. It’s bumper cars on Memory Lane. Scanning the bare legs and big backpacks and worried expressions,…

  • To bacon the dog: Verbing 101

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 17, 2014 “Come up into mountain pose, slowly rolling up one vertebra at a time, and then cactus your arms out as you go into mini-backbend.” Front range outdoor yoga instructor, August 10 Pursuant to a 10 a.m. class on the grass, I find cannot stop cactusing my arms, it feels…

  • Man cave meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 20, 2014 For this one, sire, stay in bed.No one ever need know you are traveling within if you simply do not move before getting up. In fact, pretend you are still asleep. Breathe in, through the nose. You can feel the slow intake of air through your nose hairs. Nice…

  • Sins for dog lovers

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 17, 2013 MCW: [crossing herself on hard bench of confessional] Bless me father for I have … sinned. It’s been— Priest on duty: [interrupting] Not that long since you were here, my child [sighs]. What now? MCW: [blushing] Gee. Is that how you address sinners these days, with “What now?”…

  • Slouchy Sunday style blog

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 4, 2013 After walking around a lot the last few days, I had a lazy morning and wore just black yoga pants and a white T-shirt, kind of slouchy. Finally, I did get dressed for eggs Benedict downstairs and put on black fitted jeans from Aéropostale …. that I rolled…

  • Ridiculously full vs. sublimely hungry

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 20, 2012 I am on the S44 bus on Staten Island heading deep into the heart of the landfill borough to sample pizza from Denino’s, another contender in the knock-down, drag-out pizza vs pizza heavyweight championship of my personal world. It’s four-ish, the bus is packed and making stops every…