As a Joke, We Bought an RV

As a Joke, We Bought an RV

On our way to the RV show at the Colorado Convention Center on April 1, my partner and I planned how we were going to play the biggest April Fool joke ever on our five adult kids. They knew that we’d been toying with the idea of getting an RV since the pandemic,...
Pennies for your thoughts

Pennies for your thoughts

(Published in The Denver Post on February 11, 2009)  The day is here. Millions of new pennies are being released. Will unsuspecting bank customers and shoppers notice that the Lincoln Memorial has been replaced with a log cabin? Will they realize that this is the...
My kid, the malapropist

My kid, the malapropist

Don’t look it up just yet. The meaning of malapropist is in my story. My youngest will have to live with the words the rest of her life. And the fact that the rest of us chuckle nearly every time we pull up to an intersection where pedestrians are in the crosswalk....