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Flood + fire + friendship
Appeared in Methow Valley News 6.5.2024 In the birth years of the Methow Valley Class of 2024 — 2005 and 2006 — Hurricane Katrina hit...
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Jan 62 min read
The Plunge 2023
appeared in the Methow Valley News 1.3.24 The “polar plunge”—jumping into water around Christmas or New Years Day in a cold climate—is in...
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Jan 12 min read
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
appeared in Methow Valley News, 12.28.23 Years ago my family and some friends launched a tradition of caroling our neighbors at...
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Nov 23, 20232 min read
The ABCs of Methow Valley gratitude
appeared in the Methow Valley News 11.22.23 A few times in the past I’ve written about the benefits of keeping a gratitude journal, but...
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Jul 29, 20232 min read
The worst club in the world
appeared in the Methow Valley News 7.27.2023 I don’t know how to write about last Tuesday’s car accident on Twisp River Road that...
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Jan 2, 20232 min read
Enumeration: The 6 Colors of Eighth Grade
* I recently helped with a writing workshop for local eighth grade students, who have been working on creative non-fiction pieces,...
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Jan 1, 20231 min read
The Plunge
It was a big year, 2022. My oldest daughter graduated from high school. I left a nonprofit organization I'd been with for 12 years and...
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Nov 24, 20221 min read
Three glimmers of gratitude on a day that demands it
* For Thanksgiving dinner eaten in the old Bluebird Grain Farms packing room 1) A dark morning with a house full of sleeping children,...
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Sep 21, 20222 min read
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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Aug 26, 20222 min read
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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Jul 26, 20223 min read
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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Jun 3, 20223 min read
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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Feb 26, 20227 min read
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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Jan 20, 20223 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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Nov 25, 20215 min read
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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Sep 14, 20213 min read
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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Aug 20, 20214 min read
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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May 8, 20213 min read
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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Mar 5, 20212 min read
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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