Musings at Altitude

It’s been a long summer, filled with coaching changes, trades, retirements, and eager anticipation. Thank goodness for yesterday, when two things which seem to almost always arrive together finally got here: (1) snow on the peak: (2) hockey And just as certainly as birds flying south for the winter, my daughter will now begin her […]

The newswires were all abuzz yesterday about the microphone grabbing interruption of a thank you speech being given by a recording artist who won “best female music video”.  The microphone was grabbed by another artist who believed that someone else should have won that award.  The world seemed shocked by the behavior, and the criticism rained down […]

It was another great weekend of sports: some great matchups in college football (unusual for this early in the season) some great racing as NASCAR now heads into its own version of a playoff some great golf as only the top 30 in “cup points” make it to the championship rounds in two weeks some great tennis, with […]

It’s in the high 40’s at night now, causing us to use blankets again. We had the first dusting of the year on the top of Pikes Peak this week. We’ve had more than a full day now of cloud cover, which is something that rarely if ever happens in the summer. The grass didn’t grow […]

Amazing. That’s all I can say about today. About football…because of a game winning drive by a 19 year old true freshman in front of 106,000 screaming fans, most of them screaming for him to fail…and yet he delivered…and a legend is born. About tennis…because of a match ending tirade by a superstar against a line judge […]

What would it be like without mediators — those relatively unbiased participants in a meeting that work incredibly hard to reconcile the differences between parties with widely varying views or positions? Today, I can testify to the fact that without mediators in the meetings I was in, nothing would have been accomplished. The issues were […]

I give up.  Every time I try to get to bed early and catch up on that much needed rest, it’s denied.  Typically it’s the wheezing and resultant hacking of asthma like conditions that only happen when I lay down.  But tonight, it wasn’t that bad.  And by 10:30, SportsCenter went off, and sleep arrived.  […]

Earlier this evening, a young boy came to my door.  He must have been around 10 years old.  And all he had with him was a box of rocks. I asked him what the rocks were for, and he said, “I’m selling them because my Mom and Dad need money.”  When he said that, I […]

I’m worried about my 15 year old. We were downstairs watching US Open tennis this afternoon, and I grabbed a Diet Coke and Dr Pepper out of the fridge for me and Denise (respectively).  I mentioned to Denise that there was quite a bit of beer in the fridge (left over from a previous party), […]

During our running around yesterday, Denise asked the question, “Where are the firefighters”?  We left the house expecting to see those very familiar boots at every street corner and firefighters walking through every intersection collecting money for Jerry’s Kids.  But none were in sight…not even in front of the fire station. As we came home […]