vol. 2, no. 29 | Familiar Faces
[Whispering] Okay so there’s me, obviously, and you of course already know Livvy—my best friend and wife of almost eleven years. We brought the vegan mashed...
vol. 2, no. 28 | Gratitude
For the whiteboards from Gusto, claimed by Halie, that we rolled down 16th St., on which so many of us wrote our names so many times. The used Steelcase and...
vol. 2, no. 27 | Treachery
The night of Glint, while some of us sat in a warmly lit room hearing stories, people elsewhere in Colorado were allegedly seeing the northern lights. Were...
vol. 2, no. 26 | Times Change
It is so nice to cry because of beautiful things. It is better to have company either way. It’s a nice problem to have too many leads. Yes, you are also a...
vol. 2, no. 25 | Good Tape
For Halloween this year I dressed as a young Ira Glass. It was a bit of a lazy costume: just a suit and recording equipment. I thought about dying some of my...
vol. 2, no. 24 | An Order of Magnitude
It was another one of those major markers of time; an event that conjured memories. Do you remember the one last year? That you printed ciphers and observed...
vol. 2, no. 23 | Generations
This intro is going to be short because I spent too much of the morning* trying to fly a kite. (Time flew, the kite did not.) But in the time that it would...
vol. 2, no. 22 | See you tomorrow, probably!
Some workday this past week, Liz was leaving early for the day, and when saying goodbye to each of us the thing she said was see you tomorrow, probably!, in...
vol. 2, no. 21 | Charismatic Megafauna
At the end of Jacob’s PowerPoint Party presentation he mentioned the term ‘charismatic megafauna’, which, as I understand it, refers to animals that are...
vol. 2, no. 20 | Daylight
Shortly after leaving college I began to realize that the thing I had liked most about the storytelling, poetry, and open-mic events we used to host and...
vol. 2, no. 19 | Make-Believe
This past Thursday, some of us got to attend the final Make & Tell of the 2025 season, and it was one of the very best. The Made Shop, who host the events,...
vol. 2, no. 18 | Repetition
Summery, my favorite seasonal celebration, is coming up next week (September 22), and with it the concomitant pondering. What did our lives look like at the...
vol. 2, no. 17 | Toxicology
My hunch is that the autopsy will show alarming amounts of nostalgia in the bloodstream. The forensic pathologists will confirm that it was ultimately a...
vol. 2, no. 16 | Harvest
Ivan Ruiz-Knott: Way back in the early days of our radio show, in episode 10, we talked about a peach tree that sits outside our studio here in Denver,...
vol. 2, no. 15 | Extraordinary Joys
Making a new friend. Little Man on a hot day. Noticing that you’ve tuned out the sound of the punch clock. Finally seeing the dog in the window again, and...
vol. 2, no. 14 | Loaners
Sometime Friday afternoon, between taking a photo of Jim and arriving at our house, my camera—the Sony with which most of the Paperwork photos have been...
vol. 2, no. 13 | Social Architecture
This past week, Mark, Livvy, and I went to check out a cohousing community in the city, and we had some really great conversations with some of the residents...
vol. 2, no. 12 | Not Illegal
There are many times for me when all of this feels a little surreal. I haven’t had a difficult life—not by a very long shot—but I have had a few moments of...
vol. 2, no. 11 | Time Sync
Lately, Livvy and I have been designing and programming a custom timer app for events at The Company. It’s a timer that can sync across devices, so that the...
vol. 2, no. 10 | Muhduh
Every once in a while it feels like we’re in a low-budget sitcom that can’t afford to shoot in very many locations. Often we’re just here, at the far end of...