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Three glimmers of gratitude on a day that demands it
1) A dark morning with a house full of sleeping children, last night’s giggles given way to soft murmurs of slumber and all the promise...
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ashleylodato
- Sep 21
- 2 min
Enumeration: 5 moments after dropping your child off at college
Poof! Just like that, they're gone. These children you carried, inside you, on your hip, on your front, on your back. Clinging to your...
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ashleylodato
- Aug 26
- 2 min
Flyer
appeared in the Methow Valley News, 8.24.2022 Sometime in late 2016, I was talking with Dr. John O’Keefe about flying. Dr. O’Keefe, as...
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ashleylodato
- Jul 26
- 3 min
All hail the river
* thanks to Kelly Hayden & Leila Myers for photos and videos The people hunkered down in the shade above the sandbar couldn't see it, but...
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ashleylodato
- Jun 3
- 3 min
Cap and gown
appeared in Methow Valley News, 6.1.2022 Along with nearly 60 of her classmates in the Methow Valley School District, my oldest daughter...
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ashleylodato
- Feb 26
- 7 min
Baby catcher
appeared in Bluebird Grain Farms 2.24.2022 photos courtesy of James Austin A childhood spent on a farm normalized the mammalian birth...
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ashleylodato
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Livin' the dream
Appeared in the Methow Valley News, 1.12.2022 When the universe (or at least the troposphere) presents us with an opportunity to revel in...
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ashleylodato
- Dec 11, 2021
- 4 min
Oh Tannenbaum
*appeared in Methow Valley News 12.8.2021 *photos from days of yore When I volunteered to write about venturing back into the woods to...
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ashleylodato
- Nov 25, 2021
- 5 min
Enumeration: 12 full moons
* an excerpt from this post appears in the Methow Valley News, Valley Life 11.24.2021 On Halloween Eve 2020, some friends and I went for...
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ashleylodato
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
But at least
appeared in Methow Valley News Valley Life 8.25.2021 When assessing something, I like to rely on scientific data when it’s available, and...
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ashleylodato
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Giddyup
appeared in Methow Valley News 8.4.2021 It’s the stuff of legend: local gal wearing only a bikini and sandals jumps on a horse and rides...
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ashleylodato
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
Circle up
Spring came back around as it always does, not a milestone but an inevitability. We celebrated not just the longer and warmer days, but...
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ashleylodato
- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
Driven Snow
appears in Stanford Magazine, March. 2021 A gleaming hulk of a thing, smacking of horsepower, the PistenBully is all brawny elegance....
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ashleylodato
- Jan 24, 2021
- 2 min
Threads
In the fall of 1939, my paternal grandmother boarded a train in Gleichen, Alberta headed south, across the US-Canada border, and on to...
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ashleylodato
- Dec 25, 2020
- 5 min
Enumeration: 4 elements whispered in gratitude
1. EARTH The mountains welcomed me back last summer as they have every summer, with neither preferential nor prejudicial treatment. COVID...
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ashleylodato
- Dec 20, 2020
- 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...
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ashleylodato
- Dec 13, 2020
- 6 min
Carl Miller: Trailblazer
appears in Methow Trails Magazine 2020-2021 photos by Jason Paulsen, Methow Conservancy Carl Miller: March 29, 1939 - December 12, 2020...
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ashleylodato
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
Sugar coated
Valley Life, Methow Valley News 10.28.2020 Due to the scarring effects of Halloween 1976, I’m probably not the best person to sympathize...
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ashleylodato
- Oct 1, 2020
- 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...
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ashleylodato
- Sep 22, 2020
- 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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