The air is lighter and cleaner here. I feel healthy just walking down to my favorite coffee house.

Actually, my favorite coffee house here is one of about four different ones around here. Five, maybe. Everyone has a favorite.

The plains intersect with the mountains right here. I can drive for ten minutes into the Front Range and be a thousand feet higher than I am sitting here in our home.

Two environments — plains and mountains — and several different coffee houses.

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My earliest memory is of getting a brand new Chatty Cathy doll for Christmas. I was fascinated by her ability to speak, and to randomize her lines, so that I could not predict what she would say the next time that I pulled the cord on the back of her neck.

I loved that thing. The last I saw of it, the doll was looking a bit bedraggled and worse for the wear. It disappeared roughly around the time that I got one of the first Barbie dolls as a gift. Next Christmas? Birthday? Can’t remember.