Name that tune
Reprinted from Pied Type, August 22, 2011 Funny how the mind works. When it works. If it works. I was in the kitchen fixing lunch and out of the blue […]
Back in the day with Stephen Colbert
I’m a huge Stephen Colbert fan and have been since I first saw him on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. But until I read it this morning in one of […]
The intransigence of hate, 2021
(Previously published in 2017) I first wrote about the intransigence of hate in our society back in 2009, and then again in 2010. And I’m sorry to see the topic is just […]
The size of a hummingbird
Back in the spring of 2013 I was an avid online hummingbird watcher. A man in Southern California had a live streaming webcam focused on a hummingbird nest, and hundreds […]
Colorado in a nutshell
Dude Dad has, I think, successfully nailed every Colorado stereotype in the book. If he truly learned all this in only two weeks, he’s amazing. But maybe we Coloradans are […]
Just change the moon’s orbit
Sleep well, America. Trump’s gone and Texas GOP Representative Louis Gohmert is hard at work in Washington. No more crazy ideas like injecting bleach to cure Covid. Now we have […]
You must meet Nightbirde
Last night on America’s Got Talent, a beautiful young woman named Jane Marczewski, aka Nightbirde, sang an original song titled “It’s Okay.” Afterwards she commented, “You can’t wait until life […]
Happy ending for injured bear cub
The video tells the whole story. A black bear cub was orphaned and injured in Colorado’s Cameron Peak fire last year. He was found by wildlife officials, who treated his […]
Cat survives jump from 5th floor
The Chicago Fire Department captured this video of a black cat jumping from a fifth-story window to escape a fire two days ago. The cat narrowly missed a wall on […]
Once a mother, always a mother
This video was posted May 8, the day before Mother’s Day. At least one of these mothers will never forget the experience. (Recorded by Michael Austin at Franklin Park Zoo […]
A mother’s work is never done
This video has been widely circulated and you may already have seen it. Still, it’s cute as the dickens, isn’t it? (Yeah, we said that back when I was growing […]
American catharsis
It’s gone. The malevolent incompetence that plagued our nation for four years is finally gone. Or at least its chief instigator is gone. And yesterday we celebrated. Oh, how we […]
