Author Thomas Wolfe lamented it in his 1940 best selling novel, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN. Everyone over the age of eighteen has experienced it, that small twinge of distance when you return home. For many years, I made my home…
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GOING HOME AGAIN
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Colorado, Oklahoma City, Thomas Wolfe, Wet Mountain Valley, YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
THE MOUNTAINS OR THE PLAINS?
Lake Deweese in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado No doubt artistic expression is influenced by a number of factors. After living in flat, subtle Oklahoma and moving to mountainous not-so subtle Colorado, I’ve decided that perhaps geography plays…
CHRISTMAS
This post was mounted on my blog almost two years ago. This seems like a good time to bring it back for another appearance. Happy Holidays during this wonderful time of celebration!!! For me, Christmas rarely arrives on December…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Christmas, Colorado, gift, jeweled lights, jolly fat men, Mexico, shepherd's garb. Colima, Silent Night, sleigh bells, winter, wise man
SMALL TOWN, BIG HEART, STRONG CONVICTIONS
I recently moved to a small town in Colorado where the men are men, the women are women and guns are a way of life. While I’m not in total agreement with everything my new neighbors stand for, that’s okay.…
BISHOP’S CASTLE
John Wayne embodied it in his movies. Jim Bishop embodies it in his amazing castle. American individualism is alive and well in the Wet Mountains in southern Colorado. There are some among us who feel overwhelmed by the…