Year: 2020
I almost forgot Pantone’s Color of the Year
I’m about a month late, I think, in writing about Pantone’s Color(s) of the Year selection for 2021. Perhaps that’s because I’m not crazy about their combination of yellow and gray. Don’t get me wrong. I like a nice sunny yellow in appropriate places. I don’t wear yellow, for example, but yellow flowers are spectacular, … Continue reading I almost forgot Pantone’s Color of the Year
Merry Christmas from Colorado
Better than a fruitcake
After all these months, we’re getting a whopping $600 per person from Congress in stimulus (Covid relief) money. Sure, it will help for Christmas, but in the Denver metro that’s not even a month’s rent. This in the world’s richest nation. It’s almost criminal. Continue reading Better than a fruitcake
Holly is not mistletoe
I first published the article below back in 2012, but having just watched “The Masked Singer,” I feel compelled to reprint it. On the show Robin Thicke was given a gorgeous garland of HOLLY. Holly, people! Both Thicke and host Nick Cannon called it mistletoe. NO. A thousand times NO! This is holly: This is … Continue reading Holly is not mistletoe
All I want for Christmas …
Yes, I actually chuckled at the originality of this cartoon. But that doesn’t change the fact that I am mad as hell at Congress for putting politics above a months-ovedue Covid relief bill. Selfish, thoughtless, unfeeling, privileged, utterly heartless “representatives of the people” — the people who have lost or are losing their businesses, their … Continue reading All I want for Christmas …