Colorado Kimmie

 I'm a child of the 80's, so growing up as a teen in the 90s, I recall a popular game, "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"  Well, today's game is, "Who in the World is Dennis Montgomery?" This picture popped up in my phone memories from last year and made me miss my long braid.  I’m guessing this time next year my hair will be grown out again. However, I’m using this picture because it either looks like I’m about to reveal some hard truths or bust out the robot.  You decide.  It’s me solo hiking in Golden, Colorado… Rewind to 2020, not too long ago in America's history, a lot happened.  A stolen election, a concocted story of an insurrection (which was the card the government played to deny people exercising their first amendment rights to Due Process), and a lot of talk about Dominion voting machines - software that allegedly somehow flipped election results overnight.  Everyone who believes in science knows that the outcome was not statistical...

 If you’ve never been to a game at Mile High Stadium, the air is really thin, so you’ll need some strong bronchial tubes!  Also, you should really pace yourself if you’re boozing at the tailgating parties and festivities.  I saw a lot of people who couldn’t hang!   This is my second ever Bronco’s game and I’ve already dropped one blog on my first time visiting Mile High Stadium, which you should totally read by clicking on the right hand side of my main page and selecting, “Broncos”.    So allow me start with - this weekend I was all packed and ready to head out on a road trip super early Saturday morning to the Black Hills of South Dakota for an epic fall weekend playing and hiking in the Hills with a good friend and then visiting a pumpkin patch/maze on Sunday followed by brunch.  I was so bummed when I got the call on Friday afternoon that my friend woke up at 2 am sick and left work early later in the day with potentially the ‘vid which was going a...

A few weekends ago, I posted some snaps of the outcome of my "award winning" chili.  Immediately I had several people begging me for this recipe.  Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks chili is a necessity for Autumn.  First, my apologies it's taken me a while to sit down and write again.  The last blog I posted was from a trip I took way back in 2021 during the COVID disruptions, after a professional transition.  I am never lacking in content.   My issue is that I have so MUCH content in my head and so little time to write.  With the cooler temps, I hope to remedy this problem, especially as I write more and more from that mini computer we carry around and call a phone. Like I said, as soon as I posted this chili, I was inundated with requests and I promised to share.  I did slip the chili recipe to an old friend from my younger years, and when she made it and posted it this weekend she had everyone begging her for the "magic sauce."...

Affluenza…what is it?  Although it sounds a lot like “influenza,” affluenza (a portmanteau, a word blending the sounds and combining the meaning of two other words such as “affluent” and “influenza”) refers to the disease of affluence.  While not a medically-recognized disease, affluenza is known as a “pseudoscientific” malaise affecting rich people.   Wikipedia defines affluenza as a “painful, contagious, socially-transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more” or a “quasi-illness caused by guilt for one’s own socio-economic superiority,” but simply put affluenza is an inability to understand the consequences of one’s actions because of financial privilege. Urban dictionary - for example, “Scotty has affluenza and thinks he can shit on people because he has money, and he thinks people actually like him but it’s the $500 a night mountain chalet for free they really want.” A throwback from South Park:  https://you...