Denver RTD: is this how you treat disabled passengers?
Had a rough start to my day. Has anyone else had a similar experience on the RTD?
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I’m a Loser, and I’m okay with it
My journey from dead-end Cluelessness to the pursuit of happiness…
Read moreColumbine: 4.20.19
Remembering…
Read moreColumbine: it was 20 years ago today
It’s been 20 years. I’m not sure I have anything new to say. On April 20, 1999, at 11:19am MDT, the world changed.
Read moreI can’t go home again
What was that thing Thomas Wolfe said….
Read moreArtSunday: It’s time for Everything is a Photograph Day #eiapd
What do you do when you live in Denver, Colorado and you can’t think of a thing to photograph?
Read moreThe hope interval: what is happiness?
I have launched myself headlong into the hope interval. As always, the cynic in me is now at war with the romantic.
Read moreHappy freaking birthday, geezer: job hunting and ageism
Job hunting is hard, and a lot harder once you hit 50. It’s important to keep your head up and stay focused on your value, but only hiring companies can actually do something about the very real problem of ageism.
Read moreKeep your head up
No matter how hard the world tries to make you look down, the view is better with your head up.
Read moreThere is no future: the ironic peace of learned hopelessness (#zenofdoc)
We must be prepared to laugh with the universe at the banality of our own immolation. Full moon. Snowfield, vast beneath the mountain: to understand the truth of people, study their contradictions. This morning I posted this little koan (minus graphic) to Facebook: I’m hardly the first to trot out a “there is no future” Zen meme. My grasp of
Read moreIn defense of Coyote
Perhaps the iconic trickster Coyote is a symbol for the frustrations of the smart person in a stupid world.
Read moreI accidentally scared the hell out of my new landlord last night
No cause for alarm… So, your new tenants have just moved into one of your rental properties in another state. Around 8pm on Thursday you get a brief email from one of the tenants – the man, whom by now you have pegged as the less responsible one – asking: Hi. Can you tell us where the water shutoff valve
Read moreIf everybody were like me, the world would be…
I think a lot of us have this idea in our heads that if everyone in the world were more like us things would generally a lot better. Maybe we’d even have a utopia on our hands. Mostly we’re delusional, of course. I have one old friend who’d trot out the old “if everybody were more like me” line periodically.
Read moreDo you have regrets?
Sometimes that which does not kill us doesn’t make us stronger. Sometimes it breaks us. And bad mistakes I’ve made a few There’s this thing we’ve all learned to say: I have no regrets. And we mean it. I know an incredible number of smart, wonderful people for whom this is a mantra, and they’re sincere. They look at the
Read moreTotality: Words fail. Pictures fail.
The best photo of a total eclipse you’ve ever seen doesn’t tell 1% of the story. The only way to communicate the reality is through digital processing technology. How very postmodern. August 21, 2017: Easterbrook Campground, SE Wyoming. This was my first total solar eclipse. To say it was life-changing … well, if you’ve seen totality you know what I
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