Boulder Gets its Freeze On: Pearl Street Flash Mob Among the Tulips

May 5th, 2008 | By Joshua | No Comments »

Yesterday in Boulder, at 12:45 pm on the pedestrian mall in front of the courthouse, everything went quiet, a sudden silence which at first was more noticeable than the lack... [Read this entry]

Nica-rado get ready! Fundraising Fiesta at the Butterfly Pavillion Next Friday!

August 31st, 2007 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

Colorado Nica-philes mark your calendars for Friday, September 7. Boulder-based Empowerment International, an NGO (non-governmental organization) which helps school kids in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, presents their fourth annual “Festival... [Read this entry]

Puerto Rico in the Rockies

July 9th, 2007 | By Joshua | 7 Comments »

What’s the next best thing to going to Puerto Rico? How about bringing Puerto Rico to the Rocky Mountains? I just spent the week with 33 Puerto Rican Expeditionary Learning... [Read this entry]

Bound for the high country—Outward Bound, that is…

July 3rd, 2007 | By Joshua | No Comments »

I’m headed to the mountains again this week, to the country’s highest town and beyond, where I’ll be romping in the woods on assignment with Outward Bound Wilderness. The participants... [Read this entry]

Lightning, Hail, and Lions: Another Day in Boulder

May 29th, 2007 | By Joshua | No Comments »

It’s been a crazy week in North Boulder, CO. Thunderstorms, hail, and lightning that split this tree like a banana. A few days ago, authorities shot a mountain lion... [Read this entry]

Winter images from my new back yard

February 3rd, 2007 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

As comfortable as our new home is, with its wind-swept wonderland out the back patio door, it’s difficult to imagine staying longer than a year or two. This is... [Read this entry]

Bloody Mayhem: images from my WFR class

January 13th, 2007 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

Here’s an image set from my Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course. As you can see, an enormous part of the 80-hour curriculum consists of practical scenarios with plenty of moulage.... [Read this entry]

Belizean Blizzard in the Boulder ‘Burbs

December 20th, 2006 | By Joshua | No Comments »

They’re sudden, those big geography shifts. Super-heated skunky waft of green rotting forest when I land in Belize. Six weeks later, Colorado wind bites my face, tropical glow sucked... [Read this entry]

Traveling Cat

November 3rd, 2006 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

If we think our lives have been topsy-turvy and discombobulated after returning to the United States from our trip to the world, imagine how Suusaa feels.

Suusaa is a native Baltimorean... [Read this entry]

Burly in Boulder: Apartment Wanted

October 17th, 2006 | By Joshua | 2 Comments »

On your left: Annapurna Amber, after the mountain whose name, according to the Southern Sun beer menu, loosely translates from the Tibetan to “goddess rich in sustenance, chock full of... [Read this entry]