Category: Seasons and Holidays

  • Picking the cake

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 1, 2019   Growing up, we didn’t have birthday parties. Not the kind with party hats and streamers and balloons — where you and all your little banshee friends tore up the house while the adults looked on indulgently. I don’t remember going to birthday parties at all, in fact, or…

  • 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,…

  • 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),…

  • Sign of the Dove

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 7, 2016 It’s the early 80s and it’s New York City, still a gritty place with large pockets of swank. I’m a single girl, a young woman who doesn’t hang out in bars much. I have very little money because I work in publishing, an industry notorious, especially back then, for a…

  • Trumping the candle

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 27, 2015 We have just lit a candle. An expensive, beautiful smelling, long-burning candle, the scent of which is neroli, I believe, (citrus aurantium — the flower of the bitter orange — a heady, citrusy, flowery scent still prized, as it was in ancient Egypt, for its calming, tranquilizing and mood-elevating effects). It…

  • Path of The Country Bunny

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 12, 2015 Dear Santa, Here’s my Christmas list. Actually, in preamble, I have to admit that I have been thinking about the Easter Bunny lately — more specifically, the one portrayed in my favorite book of all time, “The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.” Do you remember it? It’s 1939.…