What is Wilderness? An area untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. ~ Wilderness Act 1964, seen on a sign at Maroon Bells. Driving up to Maroon Bells Recreation Park, past a sign for “Marmot Crossing,” past a man rollerblading with ski poles, I’m thinking: There’s only so much […]
All roads eventually lead to my primal pain, not for the purpose of causing me more misery, but for the opportunity to heal it. My husband and I spent five days in a family shared condo in Aspen for his brother’s wedding. Of those five days, I became emotional, for some reason or another, nearly […]
Woman on a cell phone: “So why’d you decide to get a BMW?” Man on a cell phone: “You wouldn’t want to live with me. I’d rather have you not.” CD playing at the toy store we were visiting just after being at the John Denver Sanctuary: John Denver singing “All Aboard,” train songs for […]
1. I shed a few tears of happiness at the weekend Aspen wedding I attended. 2. The next day I shed a few more for a different reason at the John Denver Sanctuary, a memorial tribute to the Colorado musician that sits by the Roaring Fork River and is made up of a variety of […]
Colleen to Joe: The thing I love about the tallest mountains is that they just stand there. No one can build anything on them. Being above the tree line at 12,000 feet above sea level on top of Independence Pass in Colorado is the highest I’ve ever been. I would have thought I was on […]
