The Town of Olorado

“Life in Olorado”

Welcome to Olorado, Colorado, a tiny town of about 2,000 people, tucked in the hillside along the Colorado River.  A tine valley where when May approaches the fields bloom with wildflowers and the plants with honeybees.  While off in the distance misty fog and sometimes snow climb the Rockies and mountain slopes, even in July sometimes, summer turns to winter just north of the town populated by the same families for generations; Where mothers and great grandmothers and great. great grandmothers when to school together.  Where dentists and doctors in town are seen as the high school jockey or sometimes the high school asshole, even if he cleaned up his act 40 years later.   A place where you have a plumber come to your house,  Mrs. Fletcher is pregnant again,  and the Perries are getting a divorce,  because Mrs. Perry is having an affair with Mrs. Fletcher’s sister who was never known as gay until now because she use to be engaged to be engaged to  the Martin’s youngest boy who now ran off with the Sigmore’s eldest daughter who is half his age;  who’s 25 and he’s 45.  This is the kind of town where you could very well run into your boss buying tampons at the local pharmacy and your boss’s son runs the local hardware store and also dating your daughter since high school and your boss is a man.  And the next day you’re the talk around the water color at the local printing plant. Everyone in town has a family member or at least one neighbor who works there and is talking about your run in with the office manager while you're holding a pink box of Playtex.  Even the kid ringing you up at the pharmacy knows your name and who you work for and you know his and his parents because you went to school with them and you know that they’re renovating their basement to add more space, not because he or his parents told you but because his dad works with your sister and her husband saw a truck out front of his house one weekend and was chorus and asked,  as did the other neighbors.  In this small town, a town quiet and calm from a far,  you’re about as alone as you are in New York  City.