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A brief exchange with Amy M. (Auker) Hale, who has authored several books set in the West and wrote this beautiful essay, “Feet to the Fire” (link), got me to thinking. When I told her that I ranch, too, Amy offered that she is not a rancher, she cowboys for a living. “That’s better than cowboying … Continue reading →

CONTRA VIENTO is a new online journal “for art and literature that seeks to understand rangelands in all their varied forms.” The “Open Range” column offers “more frequent postings of art and writing from rangelands and the American West.” Here you will find my words and TJ Holmes’s photo of Pretty’s calf, the lovely little … Continue reading →

  Twenty-five years ago, Rebecca Lawton and I appeared together in an anthology, Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest (Northland Publishing, 1994). I worked as an editor at Northland, my desk a mess of manuscripts set beside the biggest picture window I have ever seen, where ponderosa pines grounded me through glass as I … Continue reading →

1. Going to the zoo, zoo, zoo; how about you, you, you; you can come too, too, too . . .  Even as a child I didn’t like zoos—all those captured and caged animals—but I’m doing what a mother does and taking my kids to the zoo, zoo, zoo with my sisters and brother-in-law and their … Continue reading →

For my aunt Nat: They say that pictures are worth a thousand words. Here you get both: Tyler Lausten’s photos illustrating (almost) a thousand words.  In the mountains of southwestern Colorado, a “lake” mirrors Lake Tahoe as my grandkids cast bobbers and lures and spinners and worms into reservoir waters, over and over again, getting … Continue reading →

This link will (should) take you to the latest issue of High Desert Journal, a beautiful online publication that features writing from and about the high desert West. Each issue also features an artist from the region. I’m proud to be part of it! https://www.highdesertjournal.com/copy-of-28-10 Continue reading →