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Tuesdays are Your Turn – Summer Vacation
Summer’s on my mind lately. I’ve got several half-formed plans swirling around in my brain, including a trip to Yellowstone. I’m pretty excited about that one, and while I doubt anything else I do this summer can top the exploration of one of the largest active volcanic regions (SUPERVOLCANO) on Earth, a few weekend and [...] -
Adventure in Castlewood Canyon
Colorado, it’s so weird and wonderful. At the park down the street from me, at the foot of the foothills, grass grows green and trees bloom pink. The parks system does water the grass, but snow melt and spring rain has turned all the lawns and medians in my area this color, too. For now. [...] -
Fall Color at Kenosha Pass
I had a few posts planned this week, including a review, all of which I’ve put on hold because of unforeseen circumstances. Y’all, I am sick as a dog over here. Is it H1N1? Seasonal flu? Flu-like virus of some sort? Who knows? While sicker than I’ve been in years, achy, exhausted, feverish, and coughing [...] -
A Sense of Direction
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Here in Denver, in Body if Not Quite Yet in Mind
I’m in Colorado, and I haven’t forgotten you all, I promise. . . . Updates and regular posting to resume, um, sometime soon. -
Goodbye, Beaches. Hello, Rockies.
Does this happen to you as much as it happens to me? You form a sort of halfway schedule. Say, to update your blog at least a couple of times during the week you’re packing for your move to Colorado. You even start creating a couple of rough drafts in your head but never actually [...] -
Rocky Mountain National Park, and a Colorado Asthma Mom
Dear Internet, I’ve fallen in love with the American West. So have the girls, although watching them apply their coastal Florida expectations to these rocky hills provided great entertainment. The Gulf of Mexico, for example, makes for a warm, wavy swim. I warned the girls that glacial mountain streams are much colder, but they didn’t [...] -
Pike’s Peak, Summer Snow, More Colorado Red Rocks, and a Tiny Bit of Asthma
In the middle of my trip, we spent two different days in Colorado Springs to A) ride the cog railway to the top of Pike’s Peak and B) walk around the Garden of Gods. Now the pictures get really good. I think I’ve mentioned a time or 10 that I’m no photographer, but you’d have [...] -
An Asthma Mom Among the Colorado Dinosaurs
I hear visitors here in Florida talk all the time about the sheer magnitude of the Gulf and how it humbles them. And sometimes, if I go to the part of the beach with no tourists and no condos or hotels and the water stretches all the way out the horizon, I feel it, too. [...] -
An Asthma Mom in Golden, Colorado
Three hours of delays in the already-hectic Atlanta airport last night, and I’m more than happy to be home in Florida today, even now during hurricane season and the dead, dead days of a humid Gulf Coast summer. Summer felt so, so different in Colorado, of course. How very strange to walk around in summer [...]
