Uniformity or innovation…an author’s choice?

Lavish pageantry. Stunning displays of precise choreography. Did Beijing’s closing ceremonies outdo the opening performances? They were both amazing. After a few surprised gasps and several eyebrow dances, it seemed I was becoming jaded with the scope and drama of it all. Poor London, site of the 2012 Summer Olympics: what an elaborate act to [...]

Slipping through my fingers – the dramatic threshold of change and mourning loss before it occurs

Like millions of others, I just fell under the spell of the recently released movie, Mama Mia. Who wouldn’t want to spend some time on a beautiful Greek island, dazzled by the flowers and stunning costumes, set against the sparkling Aegean sea? But it was the music that enchanted, the return to Abba’s splendid body [...]

Blind trust

Here’s your assignment for today: slip a narrow box over your head, and let it slide down the length of your body, all the way to your knees.
This box you’re now wearing is more narrow than a casket and, unlike an MRI scan, it has no windows cut out, no soothing fan to help you [...]

To the unsung heroes who embrace our dreams

“No man is an island,” but especially for those of us in the arts, a dream can seldom be achieved in a vacuum. Most of us have or have had someone who encourages us when we need it, supports us emotionally, financially, socially, mentally–any or all of the above.
Pity them. Most of them didn’t ask [...]

Too hot? Remember Jack London’s “fine powder of frost”

We’ve just come off of an all-time record heat wave in the metro Denver area – over twenty straight days with temperatures above ninety, which included a reading of 101 degrees F. on Sunday. For air-conditioning hold-outs like my family, that meant sweltering nights with fitful sleep as the fan whipped around the air of [...]

Lifting our faces to life – risk-taking

Photo opportunities come when you least expect them, and I stumbled into this gem at last weekend’s Keystone Jazz Festival.  I admired this woman’s zest for life and her natural reaction to the rain.  Falling in late afternoon, the sun slanted into the pavillion from the west, golden sunshine that made the cascading droplets of [...]

Old Posts from my Website

July 29, 2008  Cool off at our Barnes & Noble Book signing this Saturday!

I checked the forecast in this morning’s newspaper – predicted highs of 99 today, 99 tomorrow and Friday and 101 on Saturday!!  Cool off and stop by and visit me at the Thornton Barnes & Noble, browse the shelves in air conditioned [...]