Caloden

Striking a pose in the snows

This winter has been uncommonly cold here the Colorado Rockies. That's been a problem for me since I prefer a year round temperature of approximately 84 degrees with a slightly humid breeze caressing my shoulders from a near by body of water. Days of sub zero cold followed by a ...

Diagnosis: Adult onset stupidity

One of the reasons I haven't been able to write much lately is that I've had HUGEchanges in my life. First there was the bit where I reunited with a long ago flame, fell in love with him again and spent nearly every spare moment of my time on the ...

Sticking around

I knew my private blogging days were numbered when last spring my ex-husband called me up one morning and apologized for a wrong he had long ago committed against me but that I had just penned about the night before. In truth I knew he read my blog, and by this ...

The genius of whatever

Lately the daily goings on of Manor life have been more than hectic, so much so that the details from the days have completely slipped my mind and left me with nothing to post late at night. At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it. Something I've been trying ...

My very own Marlboro Man

I'm self admittedly shallow when it comes to pretty things. I like good lines, sexy angles, beautiful color. Words are great, but give me something gorgeous to look at and I'll be entertained for hours on end. Yes, I am that simple. So how lucky am I that I have ...

Perhaps another stab

For the past few months I have been tossing about the idea of shutting down Caloden and getting on with better things to do with my time. Because really, a blog? The kind where I reveal what a hot mess I am to the great unknown of the Internet? Kinda ...

Verbal constipation

Since late summer I have been lagging in the bloggal realm. After posting every damn day for nearly seven months I lost my typing edge, my need to share with a random, mostly faceless, and really quite small, audience the inner workings and neuroses of me. Big whoop, and likely ...

Happy Heart Day, Sweet Devon!

Today marks the fifth edition of Heart Day. As ever this is one of my most favorite of days, the day when a surgical team spliced together Devon's dysfunctional aorta so that he would suffer neither an anuerism above the block or fatal organ damage below it. This is the ...

Because I think he’s brilliant

Last week Loren and his friend Aiden sat in his room until the wee hours of the morning editing this bit of ski porn. I heard the bits of the song over and over until I memorized each and every beat of the 73 seconds of music. Loren can barely ...

My time management has not improved. At all.

This fall has been a full ass kicking whomper in terms of time consumption. I can't really comprehend that it is somehow November when I know with all certainty that yesterday at noon it was still late August and my days consisted of a full 27 hours rather than the ...