During my morning drive to work, typically I see lots of bicyclists on the roads, a familiar sight. But recently the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen men and women whizzing on the side of the roads on a different set of wheels. Wheels that are much smaller and attached…
Continue readingSimon and Garfunkel penned a song many years ago called The Sound of Silence. The song lamented the sound of silence, comparing it to “a cancer that grows.” But for me, the sounds of silence are something I treasure about living in the mountains, and especially at our home here…
Continue readingColorado is having a relatively quiet wildfire season this summer, but you wouldn’t know that from the views (or should I say lack of views) along the Front Range this past week. Most people know the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina who get their smokiness from the fog that hangs…
Continue readingLast year, a woman I worked with kept talking about how many steps she had racked up via her Fitbit. Though I’d heard a little bit about Fitbits, I didn’t really understand what they were all about or how they worked. Many years ago, someone had given me an old…
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