Today in my journey to my past in Colorado, I stopped by the University of North Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. It was here that I spent my undergraduate years from 1978-1982. I wasn’t sure what I was actually going to do here on campus today, as so much of it, sadly, is a bit shut down from this COVID craziness, but I wanted to connect with the memories as best I could. It is a bit spooky to return to the cold, grey skies that always seem to be preparing for a snowstorm of some kind. I had forgotten how cold and grey Colorado could actually be.
This visit actually comes with very little sadness, though. This was a chapter in my life that I really felt good with . Once I fell into the theatre department, they rather challenged and held my hand all the way to graduation. The only thing that I would have done differently is to have taken it more slowly. I thought my education was something that I should pursue as quickly and as intensely as possible. Each semester that I was here I took in the maximum amount of ours possible and still get those precious A’s. Today, as I look over a socially distanced crowd of theatre folk gathered round a table in the main student lounge, I really think I should have found more time for goofing off, finding me, and god forbid, going out on a date.