I was mountain biking in Jamaica several years ago when our guide — a not-quite-linear man who came from Ohio — led us astray. We found ourselves hungry, out of water and a long ways away from our Negril accommodations.
Around here, we get our TV news from Denver. Some of the anchors are less android-like than others, but they all recite the same headlines. A recurring topic: an ill-prepared adventurer vanishing in the Colorado wilderness. The man was last seen wearing only cut-off jeans and a T-shirt. Auth…
It’s not normally advisable to stand in the middle of a street and linger, but the other day another man and I did this very thing. We found it’s OK to toss caution to the wind, to fly the highway to the danger zone, if you’re on Columbia Avenue in mid-afternoon when the elementary school is…
A new year. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked. Answers to be discovered. Although I speak chat (pronounced “kat”) I understand many human words because I listen. To improve feline-human relations this year, I am going to help you to listen …
UTE ROUNDTABLE … Maybe that headline’s insensitive? Or insulting? Maybe I should have said Native- and Euro-Amercans? … I think about those things. Words have connotations, not just meanings … “Injun’ and cowboy” conjures a no-nonsense Western slang ethic I remember learning, and inverts it…
Thank you for reading the first Pet Column of 2018! Although this column is typically about pet parenting advice and treating animals humanely — I thought it fitting that the 2018 kickoff (which also happens to be our 600th Pet Column!) be simply about a homeless pet like me.
Around here, we get our TV news from Denver. Some of the anchors are less android-like than others, but they all recite the same headlines. A recurring topic: an ill-prepared adventurer vanishing in the Colorado wilderness. The man was last seen wearing only cut-off jeans and a T-shirt. Auth…
It’s not normally advisable to stand in the middle of a street and linger, but the other day another man and I did this very thing. We found it’s OK to toss caution to the wind, to fly the highway to the danger zone, if you’re on Columbia Avenue in mid-afternoon when the elementary school is…
Dear Allison,
A new year. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked. Answers to be discovered. Although I speak chat (pronounced “kat”) I understand many human words because I listen. To improve feline-human relations this year, I am going to help you to listen …
UTE ROUNDTABLE … Maybe that headline’s insensitive? Or insulting? Maybe I should have said Native- and Euro-Amercans? … I think about those things. Words have connotations, not just meanings … “Injun’ and cowboy” conjures a no-nonsense Western slang ethic I remember learning, and inverts it…
Dear Allison,
Thank you for reading the first Pet Column of 2018! Although this column is typically about pet parenting advice and treating animals humanely — I thought it fitting that the 2018 kickoff (which also happens to be our 600th Pet Column!) be simply about a homeless pet like me.
I despise New Year’s Eve.
This is the last Pet Column of 2017.
Dear Allison,
CALENDARS … I’ve never been comfortable using the Julian Calendar of Empire, as revised by Roman Catholic Pope Gregory XIII — which begins with the purported birth of Christ, but which really was intended to supersede the Roman Saturnalia festival, from back when Christians were being used a…
Dear Allison,
I know this is a touchy subject. I hesitate to even broach it; snow. So many people in this region depend upon it for their livelihood, as their reason and meaning for living in this region, and to feel awake and alive during the short days and long dark nights of winter. I write this Pet Co…
Dear Pet Column,
EAGLE ROCK SHELTER … For years I’ve been working on a calendar that will reflect this place where we live. I’ve wanted to base it on the earliest dates that humans might have settled the “New World” — as opposed to the Gregorian/Julian calendar with its Old World roots in European traditions…
Dear Allison,
As the holidays approach, those of us in the tourist economy know that long hours, mandatory overtime, thousands of guests, and time away from our families and friends will increase the stress and anxiety in our community. While many of us focus on staying physically healthy this time of yea…
Dear Allison,
Dear Allison,
VIEW TO THE WEST … This old friend of Telluride is back in town for a reading from his new book of collected essays, Tracks in the Snow (Western Eye Press, 2017) … Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the Wilkinson, 6 p.m. And again the next day at Noel Night at noon at Between the Covers … For many years Pet…
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