Monthly Archives: June 2019

At eighty I believe I am a far more cheerful person than I was at twenty or thirty. I most definitely would not like to be a teenager again. —Henry Miller I won’t be 80 for several more months, but … Continue reading →

Kaitlin, Torben, Tempi, and Zoe are on their way here. They should be here Sunday evening and will leave Friday morning. How cool is that?! June 29, 2019

June 28, 2019

The Forest Service, Santa Fe National Forest, put out a news release yesterday that included, Come on, Folks – Please Put Out Your Campfires Santa Fe, NM – June 26, 2019 – Frustrated fire prevention staff on the Santa Fe … Continue reading →

Imagination is more important than knowledge. —Albert Einstein No doubt some politicians in this “alternative fact” era agree with him, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what Einstein had in mind. June 26, 2019

As some of you already know, this is one of my favorite quotes: Imagination needs moodling — long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. —Brenda Ueland I’m not a hammock person, but happy dawdling and puttering? Oh, yes! June 25, … Continue reading →

Andy misses the old trails they used to walk before the fire. He’s decided the Ridge Trail they took two weeks ago was such a mess he won’t do it again. The walk Beate and Tim took Saturday (down the … Continue reading →

I’m not allowed to beg at the table, so I will just wait here. June 23, 2019

Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests. New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing hornlike spikes at the back of their skulls — bone spurs caused by the forward tilt … Continue reading →

June 21, 2019