Dear readers of my words, I didn't know I needed it. Did you know I needed it? That I needed to hear from YOU? You must have known. I sometimes find myself gulping nostalgic memories of when things …
We camp every fall in a valley southeast of where we live. Cold, goldenrod trees against bruised sky. No cell service, continually stoked campfire. Everywhere to explore. Brown trout dancing up river, fat bodies leaping up high to help …
My daughters watch themselves dance in the window reflection. Margot tucks her shirt in, untucks it. Sways her hips from side to side. Tucks it in again. Spins on one foot, her bejeweled plastic heels stomping the turn to …
Who hosts a big ol' summer sale in her shop during the busiest season of the year the week before going out of town? This girl! (pictured with her children) Getting out the door is my …
red, blue, green, yellow and white worn by peace, gentle wind and the bluest sky in the middle of nowhere definitely somewhere four things to hear small feet skipping over earth meadowlarks new grass meeting their new grass neighbors, pushed together by …
We took off yesterday afternoon for our state capitol. Andy painted a new piece for a group exhibit that opened last night (at the same gallery - Turman Larison Contemporary - where he exhibited in …
click here to read days 1-4 day 5 in the car early but not as early as planned always the case for me these days glacier national park going to the sun holy strawberry licorice, song singing, gasping at where we live, …
day 1 early rise, pack, clean, work gram and bakka off with kids time feels longer, gentler quiet, like it once was, years 1-11 missed the kids and talked of them often, in that easy, joking, referential way between uninterrupted kisses, …
hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and (few) words about the last week Well geez. I cannot believe the outpouring of love this week while my man is all dopey, and quite …
Whoo eee. It is a busy summer for our family. All full of good stuff--weddings, pies, swimming, dinner parties, afternoon parties, hikes, scrubbing dirty feet before getting in bed even though the sheets haven't been …
When we were in college we made the six-hour road trip home to Red Lodge four or five or eight times a year. We went last weekend for the first time since last Memorial Day …
Indeed there are at least eleven storms colliding directly over the top of the interstate forcing a nine-hour drive to the coast into a 13-hour endeavor, then one considers the dog and one-year-old bug and …
