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For National Horse Day, the not-quite-300 year old United States salutes an over 30-THOUSAND year old relationship between people and...
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Dec 12, 20242 min read


Incalculable
A small calico cat lived at their vet's in a carrier, her front legs just nubbins. She didn't fare well among rowdier residents. My...
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Dec 4, 20242 min read


Passion into Purpose
Sometimes stepping away from current events is the healthiest offering we can make to people around us, to ourselves, and to the world....
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Nov 22, 20242 min read


No CATaclysms
Who is immune to the ratcheting up of anxiety and distress, the societal focus on impending CATaclysms? With great good fortune, cats...
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Oct 29, 20242 min read


Public Art Signals Shifting Landscape
Jackson Hole Public Art’s final installations in the Land Signals series will be unveiled at the end of this month at the Greater...
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Oct 8, 20242 min read


Rabbit, Rabbit
For this year’s International Rabbit Day (last Saturday in September), my research into the strange tradition of earning good luck by...
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Sep 30, 20242 min read


Upstream Actions
Despite road construction, I easily found the bold sunrise-orange awnings at Best Friends’ Lifesaving Center in Salt Lake City. The...
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Sep 26, 20242 min read


Connecting with Kin
Last year CNN’s Hero of the Year award went to Dr. Kwane Stewart, founder of Project Street Vet, and yes, the big-hearted guy split the...
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Sep 17, 20242 min read


Planetary Citizenship
Intended as a “beachy” summer entertainment, Laura Pritchett’s hot newest novel THREE KEYS brings readers along on a mischievous midlife...
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Sep 6, 20242 min read


for National Dog Day
People who work with animal welfare organizations typically have more than a job—they live with a passion that can extend well beyond...
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Aug 26, 20242 min read


Restorative Pilgrimage
At the top of South Pass, on the lower edge of the Wind River Range, piles of fragmented stone mine "trash" shine, dark in the late...
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Aug 23, 20242 min read


Her Legacy Lives On
Ruthie Davis was one of those childless cat ladies to be feared by some—and revered by many. When I first knew her, she was the point...
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Aug 14, 20242 min read


The Artifice of Boundaries
Watching a bit of the Paris Olympics after dinner at a friend’s the other night, the joy of international camaraderie was contagious. A...
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Aug 7, 20242 min read


Cracking the Heart (code)
Hardening our hearts might be a temporary survival option, and yet, surviving the endlessly painful news of a world in ongoing crisis...
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Jul 29, 20242 min read


Narrowing a Gap
Following an obsession might have been life-changing for Kentucky’s Katy Yocum, an associate director of Spalding University’s School of...
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Jul 23, 20242 min read


Snake Eyes
for World Snake Day: You have 36:1 odds for a pair of ones in the dice game of craps. Chances are probably higher that you know someone...
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Jul 17, 20242 min read


Human Ecology
She wasn’t completely unpacked yet in her new home on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, but Sylvia Torti broke free for early lunch on the...
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Jul 17, 20242 min read


Celebrating Kindness
My recent trip to Maine surfaced memories of growing up, like this one: a 4-some of baby field mice Dad brought home for his 1st-grader...
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Jul 17, 20241 min read


COVER REVEAL
If you have been subscribed to my Acoustic Burro blog, you know that Bison Books will publish my first novel on September 1. Today is...
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Jun 20, 20241 min read


They're coming...! Home.
Last weekend, my travels across the wide landscape brought me past bison herds, and found me peering through shaggy legs looking for the...
sibodonkey
Jun 10, 20241 min read
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