When my brother Chris moved to Colorado, one of the first things he exported back to our family was the phrase “It can get a little Western.” I don’t know the origins or the etymology, or of it’s overused to the point of cliche now out in the Rockies, but in my life it’s just a thing Chris says when he expects the shit to hit the fan. And it’s a phrase I’ve happily adopted to describe that moment right before the wheels fall off. So…Things got a little Western here in Dar Es