Click to see: Summary of All Chapters 35 One Saturday, when I brought Eva back to Diana’s, she and I talked in her kitchen. “I’m hoping you’ll stick around for Christmas,” I said. “Amelia’s coming out. She wants to discuss ideas about what to do after graduation.” “I haven’t made plans yet.” Diana was dipping pieces of chicken in flour and placing them in a casserole dish. “By the way, I
In sports there are many references to coaching trees. Bill Parcells, Bill Walsh, and Phil Jackson are examples of successful head coaches who mentored assistant coaches who then went on to be successful themselves. Comedy has its own version of the coaching tree; let’s call it the comedy tree. Exhibit A is Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows that trained and launched such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner,
Today marks the start of the 41st annual Territory Days in Old Colorado City. The events at Territory Days span four city blocks of Colorado Avenue, from 23rd to 27th Streets, and last the three days of Memorial Weekend, this year May 28-30. Live music is featured every day at two stages, and vendors of all kinds line the blocks. Fun events like gold panning, train rides, an old-west shootout,
Droppings! Telltale evidence leaves no doubt. I have a mouse in the garage. I refuse to say “mice” as the thought of more than one of the furry creatures inhabiting secret corners, freaks me out. I coexist fine with spiders and snakes. Only a mouse can make me stand on a chair and scream. Fear grips me, but why? Living in Colorado, I’ve heard of Hantavirus. Carried by large-eared, storybook-looking
This is part of a series of columns that feature a much-loved poem, and other poems that speaks to, or resonate with, the first poem. This week’s poem is “Requiem,” written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This poem was carved into Stevenson’s gravestone. The line that attracted me was “Glad did I live and gladly die.” Some critics consider this a bold lie, but I prefer to think of it as a remarkably existential
