Tag Archives: Autumn

Lake Drive

            When I first started writing the essays I used to send out to friends and fam through email, what I was sending was a sort of one sided conversation.  Before that, I was writing personal … Continue reading

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Addicted to color

           Ours is a working class neighborhood.  Nothing special.  Nothing to write home about – unless you’re making a study concerning the utter paucity of architectural aesthetic involved in tract-house design during the late nineteen seventies. … Continue reading

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And then there’s today

      So yesterday, this is what I saw from my desk as I sat here messing with ancestors’ faces: And this   Then we woke up this morning. Oy.

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Home Color

Postcards from the home front: Sometimes there’s a lot to say. Sometimes there’s just a lot to show: Autumn is so family for me, perhaps because winter is coming on, and you want to bundle up in your safest, warmest … Continue reading

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Rivers of Drowsy Aspen

One of the greatest delights of our lives is to ride the mountains in autumn.  Every year I’m scared we won’t get up there.  But every year, we manage to sneak away (if you can call it sneaking when you’re … Continue reading

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How We Watch Football

Times change. We change. Football doesn’t change much, but how we watch it surely does. Our house used to be the place for BYU football. All the kids there. Yelling and jumping around. Saying bad words (that would be me; … Continue reading

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