Life in Park City
A Walk In The ParkApril 2009
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04/27/09Music On Our Minds
Let's face it. The weather this weekend just stunk. It rained, it snowed, it blew. The National Weather Service used that lovely term that I hate to see on the forecast: "frozen mix." Yuck. Just when you're getting excited to get your hands in the garden or break out the golf clubs or the fly rod, you're back on the couch in fleece, stoking up the fire, pouring some red wine and looking for something mindless on television. This is almost what happened to me last night. I was seconds away from succumbing to the 'give it up and hide' attitude with this nasty weather, but somehow, at about 8 p.m., looking out at my greening courtyard (the one benefit to all of this rain), a little ray of setting sunshine poked through the clouds, washing the sky with sultry, teasing... Posted at 04:56 PM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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04/07/09Bistro on a Blustery Day
Before we truly sink our teeth into editing each issue of Park City Magazine, my copy editor Carolyn and I have made a habit of having lunch to discuss our pile of articles, and the stories behind them, and to indulge our grammar geek selves by laughing at the funny typos we have already discovered and discussing the merits and pitfalls of things like em dashes and modifiers (Carolyn was an English teacher for 25 years). Then we plot how we're going to edit and proofread (over and over again) 60-or-so stories within a six-week period. To kick off our 2009 summer issue, we lunched recently on a grey, snowy and blustery Friday afternoon (it's always so hard to get your head into "summer" in March). Luckily, the door at Main Street's Bistro 412 was swung open invitingly... Posted at 04:03 PM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
Kristen Gould Case is editor of Park City Magazine and a freelance writer who publishes nationally. Weaned on the blue ice slopes of New England, she moved to Park City 23 years ago and hasn't looked back.
