Image via Wikipedia Chess has a certain amount of pieces, as does every other game that I can think of. If you put too many pieces on the board it doesn’t look right and you can’t play. Having too many pawns makes moving around the board more difficult and having …
I have lived at 7 different addresses that I can remember and in only two cities. The total lack of variety is somewhat startling. I didn’t so much choose these locations as they were a part of what was next for me. The starter home that my parents bought, the …
The emergency broadcast system has always been something of a mystery to me. The odd, modem-like noises coming from the tv and radio, the ominous voice trying to assure us that this is only a test, or even the color bars and dead air time that seem so out of …
Piers were originally created for shipping cargo over the waterways. Enormous ships came in and were loaded with enormous containers. There was nothing elegant about this work, even if it was respectable and necessary. They were not for upscale restaurants or beer opener magnet stores. Yet, now they are for …
The things that we are most proud of, the ones that take us the most time to get right, the ones that are distinctive because our personality is immediately present, these are the ones that we don’t want others to mess with. It is a strictly look but do not …
There are only a few windy overcast days in Denver. We have 300 day of sunshine a year, and it is something we are quite proud of, even if we have nothing to do with it. On those few days in the fall, there comes wafting down from Greeley this …
There were about three different families that were always present when I was growing up. They were at every birthday party, most holidays, and hundreds of play-dates. They were always just there. I never questioned their existence because of this. I didn’t think there was some great origin story for …
I notice that mapping is still difficult. Not as hard, perhaps, as when it was done with a compass, pencil and paper. But, hard nonetheless. I can’t pull my path, my route, to where I want to go. Not on the iPad, not on the laptop, and certainly not in …
Image via Wikipedia One of my favorite things in this life is a can of mixed nuts. I don’t get to enjoy them very often, but whenever I see a can on the shelf, it makes me happy. There is something about looking at the soft tin film with the …