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Simple as a Seed
Seed Catalogs Are Arriving As Snow Sifts Down Daily In my 50's before heading to graduate school, my choice was weighted toward my home...
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sibodonkey
Dec 23, 20242 min read
Double-Up
Play Twice as Hard! Everything is better when shared, right? Writers are urged to double up the ways each word or image can act in a...
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sibodonkey
Dec 19, 20242 min read
Winter Solstice
My parents celebrating My parents got married on the year's longest night, and once we were old enough to realize what the extra hours in...
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sibodonkey
Dec 12, 20242 min read
Imagine
For National Horse Day, the not-quite-300 year old United States salutes an over 30-THOUSAND year old relationship between people and...
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sibodonkey
Dec 4, 20242 min read
Incalculable
A small calico cat lived at their vet's in a carrier, her front legs just nubbins. She didn't fare well among rowdier residents. My...
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sibodonkey
Nov 22, 20242 min read
Passion into Purpose
Sometimes stepping away from current events is the healthiest offering we can make to people around us, to ourselves, and to the world....
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sibodonkey
Oct 29, 20242 min read
No CATaclysms
Who is immune to the ratcheting up of anxiety and distress, the societal focus on impending CATaclysms? With great good fortune, cats...
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sibodonkey
Oct 8, 20242 min read
Public Art Signals Shifting Landscape
Jackson Hole Public Art’s final installations in the Land Signals series will be unveiled at the end of this month at the Greater...
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sibodonkey
Sep 30, 20242 min read
Rabbit, Rabbit
For this year’s International Rabbit Day (last Saturday in September), my research into the strange tradition of earning good luck by...
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sibodonkey
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Upstream Actions
Despite road construction, I easily found the bold sunrise-orange awnings at Best Friends’ Lifesaving Center in Salt Lake City. The...
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sibodonkey
Sep 17, 20242 min read
Connecting with Kin
Last year CNN’s Hero of the Year award went to Dr. Kwane Stewart, founder of Project Street Vet, and yes, the big-hearted guy split the...
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sibodonkey
Sep 6, 20242 min read
Planetary Citizenship
Intended as a “beachy” summer entertainment, Laura Pritchett’s hot newest novel THREE KEYS brings readers along on a mischievous midlife...
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sibodonkey
Aug 26, 20242 min read
for National Dog Day
People who work with animal welfare organizations typically have more than a job—they live with a passion that can extend well beyond...
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sibodonkey
Aug 23, 20242 min read
Restorative Pilgrimage
At the top of South Pass, on the lower edge of the Wind River Range, piles of fragmented stone mine "trash" shine, dark in the late...
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sibodonkey
Aug 14, 20242 min read
Her Legacy Lives On
Ruthie Davis was one of those childless cat ladies to be feared by some—and revered by many. When I first knew her, she was the point...
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sibodonkey
Aug 7, 20242 min read
The Artifice of Boundaries
Watching a bit of the Paris Olympics after dinner at a friend’s the other night, the joy of international camaraderie was contagious. A...
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sibodonkey
Jul 29, 20242 min read
Cracking the Heart (code)
Hardening our hearts might be a temporary survival option, and yet, surviving the endlessly painful news of a world in ongoing crisis...
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sibodonkey
Jul 23, 20242 min read
Narrowing a Gap
Following an obsession might have been life-changing for Kentucky’s Katy Yocum, an associate director of Spalding University’s School of...
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sibodonkey
Jul 17, 20242 min read
Snake Eyes
for World Snake Day: You have 36:1 odds for a pair of ones in the dice game of craps. Chances are probably higher that you know someone...
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sibodonkey
Jul 17, 20242 min read
Human Ecology
She wasn’t completely unpacked yet in her new home on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, but Sylvia Torti broke free for early lunch on the...
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