Videos and Essays

I have a new entry about finding beauty in uncertain times over at https://joriekramer.substack.com/p/a-few-of-my-favorite-things Join me...

Here's the link! Hope to see you there! https://open.substack.com/pub/joriekramer/p/home-home-on-the-range-where-the?r=cgar4&utm_campaign...

I'm still blogging, but am finding more friends to share with over on Substack. So I've moved my blog there. I hope you'll come along!...

I always assumed I preferred mountains over oceans for two reasons. 1. I never went to the ocean until I was grown. During my first ocean...

Lots to share - so let's just dive right in! *** Summer Party Invite Over a year ago, the community media center I volunteer with, FC...

At lunch the other day, my friend, Linda, mentioned that all the little birds that loved her backyard no longer come to that lovely...

Before the blog, I’d like to share that a couple of friends and I recently got together and created a podcast, Larimer County Snapshot...

DIY Circus “That's my circus and those are my monkeys,” I whispered into the laughter and whooping, proudly pointing to my grandkids...

Last week, Valentine’s Day morphed into Ash Wednesday. And now we’re into the church season where I’m supposed to live like I know that...

Happy New Year, ya gorgeous animals! I saw the tagline, “Happy 20-20MORE!”  in an ad the other day. I don’t remember what they were...

I’m so excited! I wrote a letter to a famous person, and they wrote me back! Don’t you love it when that happens? (Yeah, truthfully, it’s...

I woke up, aware something was different. Tucked into my perfectly warm, just right bed, I cracked open one eye. So much light seeped in...

We Coloradans are riding our fall weather-coaster. Sunny 80-90 degree days plunge into cold nights. Every year, my goal in the fall is to...

Last month, we took a spontaneous long weekend in Ouray, Colorado, with our daughter, Corrie, two of her four kids, and her husband,...

I only had 3 1/2 days to vacation at a secluded mountain cabin this month with my family. This year, the crew included my husband, our...

Thalia, my almost third-grade granddaughter, labored for several minutes to write a joke on the blackboard in my kitchen. She wanted all...