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Somebody stop me...
August 30, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
When my son was five, he lived to skate. While I wrote in the warming house, Chris would whip around the ice for hours, wielding his miniature hockey stick. Every time I’d interrupt, he’d protest, “I’m not tired. I’m having too much fun. Just a little longer.” When I’d finally drag him off the rink, he’d melt into a blob too weary to take his own skates off.
I do the same thing with the Crested Butte summer.
Where's that 40s stick?
July 21, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
Attention, Crested Butte forty-somethings. Have you seen the 40s stick? Is it still out there making its mysterious rounds?
For you youngsters of 39 years or less, the 40s stick is a random piece of driftwood that Myles Rademan found on a distant beach a quarter century ago. He lugged it home to Crested Butte, carved on it a little and put his initials on it. Soon afterward, when friend Billy Folger turned 40, Myles gave him the walking stick in anticipation of the infirmity soon to follow their shared four-decade mark. Billy, a woodworker, did a little whittling and initial-carving of his own and bestowed the stick upon the next friend to hit the big 4-0. A tradition was born.
Summer giddiness
June 18, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
Summer has hit, and it’s so full of wonders my brain is popping with things to write about. The problem is that, when I’m not working, it’s just too hard to come inside to write anything down.
The coast is clear! Pasqueflowers instead of snow!
May 21, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
Yesterday I walked my golden retriever Luke up a little ridge on the south edge of town and stumbled on this wondrous field of pasqueflowers. Hundreds of them. The late-afternoon sun illuminated all those fragile little hairs on the stems and set the delicate purple aglow. It stopped me in my tracks. After a few minutes of gazing, I wanted to call everybody I knew and tell them to come take a look. Summer is breaking through.
Bless this snow? I'm trying
April 28, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
Eleven months a year there's no place I'd rather live than Crested Butte. This is that other month. Right now that killer view out Paradise Divide is obscured by the clouds bringing in our next big snowstorm. Just when the grass was greening in the yard, the world, according to weather forecasts, will soon turn white again.
A blizzard of love for Madi and her family!
April 3, 2010 • 
2 comments • Posted by Sandy Fails
I seem to be on a theme of healing with these last blogs. Well, that's what so many concerned people in Crested Butte are thinking about today on behalf of Maddison (Madi) Garcia, a young woman facing some big challenges somewhere in a Seattle hospital.
Propelling Ceci forward
March 20, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
Today Ceci Ervin leaves for Poland. This is no tourist trip: Ceci plans to have an experimental "liberation procedure" to counter her multiple sclerosis symptoms. Ceci grew up in Crested Butte, and in her recent blog acknowledged that the saying "it takes a village..." can apply not only to raising children but also to healing adults.
Happy day for Hannah and Susan
March 1, 2010 • 1 comments • Posted by Sandy Fails
Today is the one-year anniversary of the day Hannah Mei-Li met her new mom, Susan Gellert. We ran a story about Hannah and Susan in last summer's Crested Butte Magazine. The changes since then have been amazing.
LAST CALL FOR COVER PHOTO CONTEST SUBMISSIONS!
February 26, 2010 • Posted by Sandy Fails
This Monday, March 1, is the deadline for submitting photos for the Crested Butte Magazine Cover Photo Contest. Got a killer summer shot? Maybe it'll end up on the cover of the magazine!
Heidi's world
February 12, 2010 • 2 comments • Posted by Sandy Fails
Okay, let me just say the name... Heidi Montag. Did I sense a reaction from you?
