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Last night I dined in the North Visiting Room of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DW). The Department of Corrections threw a thankyou banquet for approximately 100 prison volunteers, mostly from churches but also including a handful of us AA … Continue reading →

I caught up with my cousin, Bruce Edgerly, yesterday in Boulder. He is an owner and the marketing shaman for a company named Backcountry Access. “Brucie,” as I knew him when he was the baby of the cousins on my … Continue reading →

I left my SD card reader at the Sienna Hotel Spa Casino, so I can’t begin with a photograph. This thwarts me. I realize how much I have come to depend on the choosing of a photo, the uploading of … Continue reading →

This week has been a tangle of cables and equipment. It all began last weekend when I had the bright idea of buying a little television for my den, so I could watch TV when we have guests in our … Continue reading →

Claire had a private training lesson yesterday at PetSmart. Sean Blocker, the lanky and personable young Senior Pet Training Instructor, listened to Darlene’s concerns about how much Claire is barking lately and noted that, in dog days, she is in … Continue reading →

From left: Ming Luke, assistant conductor of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra; Margo Aragon, TV host in Lewiston, Idaho, and WESTAF trustee; Samuel Aguiar Iniguez of Sacramento, English teacher, film maker, poet, rapper, photographer, and playwright; and Tatiana Reinoza, artist and … Continue reading →

The Board of Trustees of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) is a remarkable group. We met yesterday in the new Denver opera house, a $75 million renovation project in the middle of our vibrant complex of theaters, the Denver … Continue reading →

It is a challenge writing a blog entry with Claire on the desk. But I forgive her, because she submitted to a fruitful photo session. Here she is posing next to a copy of The Journals of John Cheever, a … Continue reading →

Louie Kistler is one of my oldest friends from Casper, Wyoming. We met in a creative writing class where he pissed me off with an crisp critique of a piece I’d just FedExed to The New Yorker, I was so … Continue reading →

This view of the main floor of the Harvard Coop is a suitable icon for our stay in Cambridge, which concluded last night with the grueling JetBlue flight to Denver. We flopped into bed at about 2 a.m. Not enough … Continue reading →