With the Olympic track and field trials starting at the University of Oregon I’ve been thinking about …how running helped shape my world in a huge way. Call it fate, serendipity, or just a happy accident, if it wasn’t for running I would never have…
With beautiful weather in Colorado we decided to drive to Boulder with our grandsons and enjoy the outdoors. We have to seize the moment with Paxton and Logan as this was a respite from their normal busy student life! We chose the Anne U. White Trail north of Boulder where…
A visit to the the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was on our itinerary while visiting our grandson in Boston last April. I read about the museum over the years and watched the Netflix program, “This Is a Robbery”, about the unsolved robbery of 13 priceless masterpieces in 1990…
Marla told me years ago,…”If you choose to collect ‘stuff’, you are in charge of cleaning it!” I love my stuff so it is a small price to pay. If you visited our home I am sure you would be thinking, “Dick must…
After babysitting our four grandchildren for a week we enjoyed a little quiet respite with a walk in the neighborhood. We love the flowers at this Highland Park home as we walked toward Davis Park. This bridge near the Highland Park Swimming Pool was originally built in 1908. As we…
We visited our grandson Paxton at Boston College in April. It was our second out of state trip since vaccination, and we were really excited to see him. We all were secretly hoping he would be a little closer to home but Paxton received a coveted 4 year Gabelli Presidential…
Marla has been a teacher in one form or another since college. After earning her masters degree in education from the University of Denver she taught special education in middle school, a challenging assignment on many levels. She continued as a teacher, even at Wesco Fabrics. I’ve had…
We were a little sad but also happy our Buddha sculpture was heading to the Denver Art Museum. Last year Marla and I worked with Tianlong Jiao, the former curator of the Asian Art Department, to reunite the sculpture with its original Burmese pavilion. We donated the 19th century pavilion…
COVID times have disrupted almost every aspect of our lives. Even though we are seeing encouraging signs as more people are vaccinated and places of business are opening up…the world we knew has changed. I am optimistic for a return to what I love, seeing my family and…
I read a recent Gallup poll article on the continuing secularization trend in the U.S. For the first time in 83 years membership in houses of worship (church, synagogue or mosque) have fallen below 50%. Polls have shown most Americans believe in God but a large number of people…