Wanderings through life, landscapes, and occasional loopiness. So pull up a log and have a bit of a sit-down 'round the virtual campfire.

Time

I’ve been thinking a lot this week about time. Specifically, how you spend it, how it moves, and where it goes. There’s too much of it on occasion and on others, there’s never enough. Especially when it comes to the people you care about in your life. On Tuesday, I lost someone who meant something [...]

“Bigger’n Wal-Mart”

So I spend a lot of my time these days online, checking news feeds. It’s part of my job as a nascent journalistic writer. I have to make sure I have my fingers on the pulses of What’s Happening Out There so I can come up with topics to write on, stories that might be [...]

Age Ain’t Nothin’ But a Number

And good morning to y’all. I’m on Mountain Standard Time here, so it is, in fact, morning still. I’m now set up in Paonia, Colorado (look it up–fly speck on the map, friends) and working my ass off at a western-based issues newspaper. Check it out: www.hcn.org. That’s High Country News. I haven’t worked a [...]

Small Town Livin’

<cue John Cougar Mellencamp>
Well, I grew up in a small town. <la la la> And I can breathe in a small town. <dair nair nair>I went to high school…in a real small town…<thump a dumpie dump> And I was glad to leave HEY! But now I’m back in a small town…kinda weird in a small [...]