Author | Conflict Analyst | Presenter | Professor
Category: <span>Homelife</span>

Category: Homelife

WorldCon 2008

I attended my first real speculative fiction convention today: WorldCon, which is being held in Denver this year. I had a terrific time, though circumstances dictated that I could only stay for a few hours. Still, in that brief time I talked to (in order of appearance) Brandon Sanderson, Eric …

Real Estate: Twin Lakes

Spent yesterday up among the highest mountains in the state of Colorado, looking at real estate. Our primary target was Twin Lakes, though we did stop to see what Leadville and Buena Vista had to offer. There’s some beautiful property up there — a few examples of which we can …

And Now Denver

Well, we’re now in the mountains above Denver, which will likely be our last stop before heading back East to Charleston. There’s blue sky above the pines outside my window, and I can see a little doe meandering the ridgeline a stone’s throw from the deck. It’s not a sad …

Pa-Co-Chu-Puk

That’s the name of the little state park below the Ridgway dam. Less than half an hour from where I sit writing this in Ouray, it’s a terrific stretch of catch-and-release trout fishing. My parents are in town for about a week, so Dad and I went down there today …