My Name Is Scribble

I’m freezing cold Inside. Can’t find a sweater to counteract these chills. The portable heater in my writing studio keeps my torso warm but my brain is numb. I want to be outside riding my bicycle but the roads are covered with snow. The bike trails are closed. There are crowds of people visiting the ski area locations where I live. They pass germs and Covid in their snot while coughing inside my Kroger grocery store, masks are passé.

Pushy rude tourists, the worst. They leave their brains on the plane. A ski holiday with drugs and alcohol and coming from low altitude can be dangerous. In Summit County, CO where I live, the ski areas are up, up, up. Cobalt blue sky with sunshine that burns the skin fast. Both high altitude pulmonary and cerebral edema exist here. That can mean a Flight for Life Helicopter ride into Denver, the end of your ski holiday and sometimes death. It’s cold outside and no one is listening. Every now and then I hear the avalanche guns boom to make the slopes safe. I am safe for now.

I’m colder since I am older and I’m extra cold because my home sits at an outrageous altitude of 9,300 feet. I don’t do metric because America doesn’t do metric. I just type, type, type, and it is cold, cold cold.

Germs and Covid and I don’t want to get any more sick then I am already. Don’t even tell me you won’t wear a mask because you don’t believe in masks, or vaccines or Covid. I have it, the dreaded long term Covid. What do you believe in?

I believe in death this morning and dark and milk chocolate turtles and almond bark and fudge made by Ruth in a tiny town on the Western Slope of Colorado. It is called Nucla CO population 592 located in that strange catch all location known as BFNowhere . Ruth is a real person, she started her business as a way to make make a living. There are very few places to make money in Nucla. She employs the local residents to help out, especially during the holidays when she sells her candy. It is better than Belgium chocolate. It is addictive. This year all our relatives will get candy from Ruth. Ruth is the Angel of Nucla and will receive a free pass into Paradise from Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates. I’m sure of it.

Chocolate can cure any illness if you just believe in miracles Eat more chocolate, outwit death. That is my 2023 New Year Fairy Tale…