Wednesday, April 8 I awoke Wednesday morning to a disaster: we were out of ground coffee!! #PANIC Thrust into action by crisis, I had to find our strategic reserve of coffee beans (in the pantry), then locate the relevant pieces of the Vitamix for dry-blending, and then figure out how the hell to do… well… this: Success! Coffee! The big… Read more »
Tuesday, April 7 When Tuesday dawned, it meant the girls’ Extended Spring Break was officially over. Hello, First Day of Online School: (Well, first day of official, district-run online school, anyway. The younger girls’ teachers independently tried out some informal online-school stuff during the first two weeks of “break,” while the school district was figuring out what its overall plan… Read more »
With everything going on in the news — and in our suddenly disrupted and uncertain everyday lives — Becky & I figure that 🎵 what the world needs now … is kittens, sweet kittens. 🎵 So we’ve set up a webcam (#DenverKittenCam) where you can watch our brand-new, adorable, 3-week-old foster kittens. 🙂 The webcam comes & goes, with technical… Read more »
For the life of me, I can’t get this down to letter-to-the-editor length. 🙂 But here’s the latest iteration of my argument: For Democrats who believe it would be disastrous to nominate either a 78-year-old socialist or a 78-year-old billionaire to face President Trump in November, these are worrisome times. A passionate progressive plurality has made Bernie Sanders the favorite… Read more »
No one: Absolutely no one: Me: AMY KLOBUCAT
If party leaders stay on the sidelines . . . Bernie’s momentum, Bloomberg’s money, and the front-loaded primary calendar will overwhelm the race. . . . The stakes are far too high to simply wait, let the process play out, and hope for the best. A disastrous outcome is not just possible, it is highly likely without some form of… Read more »
Mile High Bally & I are headed down I-25 for some hoops tonight, as I got myself a press credential — making me literally the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!!! 😂 — for the 6pm men’s basketball game at Clune Arena between Air Force (9-14 overall, 3-8 Mountain West) and the #4-ranked team in the country, undefeated San Diego State (23-0, 12-0)…. Read more »
When I logged off Twitter on January 1, and declared this year a #Twitterless2020, my actual goal was that I would ultimately tweet exactly once all year: a long-imagined tweet, or brief series of tweets, on November 3 or 4, if things go as I hope. (Knock on wood.) But this evening, as I processed the news of Mitt Romney’s… Read more »
[SCENE: The United States of America, every New Year’s Eve since 2016.]PERSON #1: “Well, that was an awful year. Good riddance.”PERSON #2: “Yeah. I sure hope the new year is better.” [Clock strikes midnight.]THE NEW YEAR: “Hold my beer.” Because I’m not on Twitter, I’m not automatically creating a sort of personal record for posterity of the past week’s events… Read more »
As I prepare for #Twitterless2020 — my John Green-inspired decision to sign off Twitter for the year — I’ve been pondering how to strike the right balance between two competing impulses. On the one hand, I know myself too well to think I’ll be happy without an outlet for publishing stuff when I have something to say (or a joke… Read more »
