Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 1, 2025 “We live in a digital world, but we’re fairly analog creatures.” –Omar Ahmad On a morning walk recently, and tuning into a health podcast I found at the last minute, what often happens with information happened again: The subject I’m interested in finds me, all algorithms aside. Though…… Continue reading Digital freeze out
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Holiday superpowers
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 20, 2024 “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein Almost 40 years ago during off-season, before it was monitored or had many — if any — rules or restrictions as a climbing area, we pulled into the Indian Creek Campground, about three hours…… Continue reading Holiday superpowers
Fiber fan club
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 25, 2024 “Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.” — Erma Bombeck There was an iconic moment 28 years ago, as the mother of a toddler, when I witnessed a parent friend hand her two kids under…… Continue reading Fiber fan club
Stopaholic
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 1, 2020 I’m not sure I ever really liked grocery shopping as we know it, but now, given a choice of the pick-up version or the masks-on version, any charm that it did have has pretty much dissipated. I’m not saying I’m not grateful for having food, having the…… Continue reading Stopaholic
Dog whisperer
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 6, 2019 Last time I had an actual puppy in my life, I was 12. All the siblings had already graduated from high school, and it was just me and the ’rents in a big and overly quiet house. I don’t remember much about having Arbie as an 8-week-old,…… Continue reading Dog whisperer
Bud vase diaries
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 1, 2019 Three days before my French aunt Bibiche’s (Bee-beesh) 95th birthday recently, I remembered that I’d forgotten it (again), and that (again) it was too late to send a card or letter or anything that would show care, appreciation, forethought and good manners, the kind she had and…… Continue reading Bud vase diaries
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