Category Archives: The outside world

Interlude

  For like the last week, our local weather guys have been rubbing their hands together with glee, predicting a HUGE change in the weather for this week.  For today, specifically.  “Wait till you find out what’s coming,” was the teaser … Continue reading

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The Great Journey~ Pt. 3

And then . . . We took a bus.  A happy bus. Transportation.  Which put me in mind of  . . . horses.  I started missing horses.  So we went looking for some. We found this one – part of … Continue reading

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He’ll be going round the mountain . . .

M will be home, ten months from yesterday.  That was the first important thing about yesterday.  The second is that we ended up taking the colt for his FIRST LONG RIDE up the mountain.  It was a miracle of circumstance: … Continue reading

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Frazz and the mirror eyes~

There are two places where I always end up feeling nervous and small.  One is the airport.  When I was young, my dad worked for TWA, and we’d always fly standby – free to see my grandmother, cousins.  The catch … Continue reading

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~:: having a hay day ::~

Now, ya’ll may not find this interesting.  But as a dyed-in-the-wool ignorant suburb-baby, I find it absolutely and utterly fascinating.  Stick with me and I’ll have you well educated in the art of angsting over the coming winter and knowing … Continue reading

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The 4th: part tres

When I was a kid, I fell in love with Polyanna.  The movie, I mean, not the character.  I loved the prisms.  And I loved most of all the 4th of July bazaar—the games and the flags and the corn on … Continue reading

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The 4th: part dos

Parade day is always good exercise.  If you don’t get up at five to stake your claim (which we don’t), you do a whole lot of walking (which we do).  Sometimes through parts of town you’ve never seen before.  I … Continue reading

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The 4th: part uno

  A little (HA) photo essay about the things I loved this 4th— Part One The Hometown Parade: we make it a science Every year as the kids grew up, we made our way to Ginger’s house, a lovely pioneer … Continue reading

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Conclavity of the Arts

When I was invited to function as the Mormon Arts Foundation’s Chair of Literature some years ago, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it.  Yeah, we make our living in the music biz, but that’s all just working class … Continue reading

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Every little triumph counts

            People always like to think that I am brave and fierce, a thing which is just completely untrue.  I’m verbal, which is a kind of armor, I suppose.  But I am not brave, and rarely … Continue reading

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