How you play the game
Happy new year! Oh boy, these days it seems like each year is better than the next… just kidding- sort of. We went through the ringer...
Carbondale: A Great Place to Be… Yourself
I recently self-published a compilation of Ps & Qs (available on Amazon until there are enough discarded copies in the world to find one...
Now Presenting NoDo CarBo!
I recently watched a documentary on Kurt Cobain, and afterwards I thought, “It’s a damn shame he didn’t stick around long enough to make...
Keep Calm and Carbondale On
Once upon a time, in a bar called the Black Nugget, (where the men were men, and the drugs were nervous!) a couple of women from out of...
Equality dreamin
When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here’s what she said to me* You will...
Cherry blossom aversion
Question: Is Mercury pretty much always in retrograde these days? For every two steps forward I take, it feels like Mercury— or whoever...
Beauty and the bobbleheads
I wrote this article for the Valley Journal fifteen years ago (reprinted here with a few nips and tucks.) While it is from my early years...
Death is like a piñata
On November 1, 1955, a young boy was riding his bike home in Denver, Colorado. He blew through a stop sign and crossed the street in...
The Bread War: Carbondale on the front line
2021 sure seems to be a year of big change. New habits (and buildings!) are cropping up faster than the tulips, as we all try to figure...
Maybe I should’ve gone to Vassar
“There’s a time and a place for everything… It’s called college.” -Chef Jerome McElroy When I was growing up, the question wasn’t, ‘Are...