I just sat down to practice piano. My recently unemployed status allows me time to do some of the things that I've allowed to slip away, like vacuuming under the couch or baking for my family or cleaning out the garage. Piano, however, is one of the things that keeps me sane, keeps me from... Continue Reading →
Life Moves Pretty Fast Around Here
If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.--Ferris Bueller's Day Off. My husband's joblessness ended very quickly. Within hours of posting his resume on the magical computer programmer job-finding site, he had calls about three different jobs. He fielded innumerable calls about the positions, and on Tuesday of... Continue Reading →
Taking the Long Way
So that happened. For the first 24 hours that followed our layoffs from our respective jobs, my husband and I could only look at each other and shake our heads. Clearly, our lives were on a path we were not supposed to be on, and our course has been changed. Radically. I can't find another... Continue Reading →
Here Comes the John Denver
You knew it was coming, right? I mean, who writes about Colorado without referencing Denver? He's the epitome of Rocky Mountain platitudes. I was prepared to eschew him altogether, hoping to bring something new to the body of writing about the Rockies. And then I heard Rocky Mountain High again over the weekend, and was... Continue Reading →
Mountain Man
I have always been a country girl. I spent most of my childhood out in the woods, climbing trees, swimming in the pond, riding bikes on the trails behind our house, exploring. In the winter, we went sledding, skated on the pond, built snowmen and forts, had snowball fights. My mother wouldn't really allow us... Continue Reading →
Meg Currell 