Tuesday’s hike was getting a little long, or thus spaketh my blisters, when I spotted the largest paw print I’d ever seen in my life. Along with it’s three brothers. The prints were spread out across a stride bigger than my entire person. The front paw alone rivaled the size of my head.
Uh-oh.
I immediately started singing some [...]

On Wednesday, the wind went wild. Only a few hours after Barack Obama was elected president, the winds of change blew through Wyoming.
Yes, there are indubitably more scientific explanations for the weather event, but this is my blog, and I’m sticking to my own brand of meteorology….
We lost some trees (read: gained some firewood) and had to track a [...]

I cried last night when I heard the news. It still seems too good to be true–I guess I’m shellshocked after the last eight years. I keep expecting bad news around the corner. I want so badly to believe that we are this ready, but I can’t let my shoulders drop. I’m tense. What if all [...]

It takes a decent amount of feeling badly to get me to go to a doctor. The degree of badness required isn’t equal, body-part-wise, either. A week with an upper respiratory infection is plenty. My stomach–well, that remains to be seen. Because the bad feelings I was left with after the office visit were worse than [...]