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3 days ago
3 min

Andromeda

At a recent gathering of women {outdoors, socially distanced—do we keep needing to add those disclaimers?}, we discussed the universe. We...

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ashleylodato

7 days ago
2 min

The sweet spot

The best part of the honey house is the smell. Joke all you want about "honey house," as a euphemism, but this is the real deal--the true...

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ashleylodato

Aug 2
2 min

Baby steps

While running on a familiar trail near my home a few weeks ago, I started noticing baby footprints in the dust. Not just a single footpri...

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ashleylodato

Jul 9
2 min

Habits

When I was 20, I spent a semester in school with a nun. For a girl who grew up in rural central Washington, everything about Perugia, Ita...

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ashleylodato

Jun 22
5 min

Always above Lava

Formed by a debris fan at the base of Prospect Canyon at river mile 179 on the Colorado River, Lava Falls looms as arguably the most inti...

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ashleylodato

Jun 5
3 min

Tough enough to make the difference

When I arrived at Stanford in the fall of 1987, I had no organized sports experience under my belt, other than a brief foray into basketb...

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ashleylodato

May 13
2 min

Filters

My best college friends and I may not have been the brightest bulbs in the box, but I assure you that we were far from the dimmest. And y...

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ashleylodato

May 9
1 min

The edge

One of my favorite trail runs is one of my hardest. Starting out in a pine forest, it climbs up through aspen stands, past old homesteads...

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ashleylodato

May 1
2 min

Been there, done that

Pandemic stir-crazy and itchy to capture the first camping trip of the season our cancelled spring break plans cheated us out of, my fami...

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ashleylodato

May 1
3 min

Passages

A few years ago I visited one of my childhood homes, a small A-frame in Wyoming that had been expanded with the addition of two tiny bedr...

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ashleylodato

Apr 1
2 min

Send in the clowns

When I was in second grade, I was a clown for Halloween. The main costume was a red nylon pantsuit with a long zipper up the middle. My m...

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