Utah
September 9, 2009
- I love duck ponds. The colors flashing on the birds' backs. The way the water divides alongside their carved bodies, with little resistance. I had a chance one afternoon to sit with Gayle and enjoy his reed-fringed pond in Southeastern Utah, and watch the wild mallard, the teal and the wood ducks gliding by. Gayle and his wife, Charlie--no, I'm not making this up, every story I tell on this blog ...
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August 22, 2009
- "Moki" is a Hopi word for "those who are gone," or "the people who have left." A winding, gravel road that contracts into three miles of hairpin turns cutting deep into the sides of a mesa above Valley of the Gods, Utah, is called the Moki Dugway. Parking at the top to look down into the Valley with its red buttes and eerie hoodoos, I met Dale, from Eastern Oregon.I ...
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June 1, 2009
- Priscilla has lost her cows. This is not a good thing, not for a Navajo. For a Navajo, cows are income, cows are livelihood, cows are why you bother to get a grazing lease in the first place. Priscilla's family has had cows for generations. They should have about a hundred head right now. Instead, they have eighty. Twenty of the herd have been playing hide and seek for a while. Well, ...
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May 6, 2009
- Just back from an interview at The Montecito Journal re my book, "Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy." I thought there might be smoke in the air as one of the first, of what's sure to be a season of California fires, was still burning. My husband and I had just run to the top of the mountains where the fire is last week and noticed how dry and brown the landscape was. I ...
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May 2, 2009
- For me, teaching is a vacation. In fact, after watching my fellow teachers after the second day of school closure, I realize none of us know what to do without our routine. We like structure. The five-day “weekend” was a stretch for us, especially since it’s been drizzly mizzly all week. There’s nowhere to go, either; it was raining in St. George and Moab, too. Today, at 11:00 ...
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May 2, 2009
- The CATALYST magazine just published my article on Red Cliffs Lodge and Castle Creek Winery. It's always fun to see my name in print. : ) http://www.catalystmagazine.net/component/content/858?task=view&ed=33
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April 26, 2009
- At night, when I can’t sleep, I think about all the things for which I am grateful. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about “geographic luck.” Years ago, someone gave Dwight a copy of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond for Christmas. He discussed it with our neighbor, Howard. Nothing about the book interested me. Until now. Essentially, I understand Diamond’s theory of ...
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August 23, 2008
- I just found out, via my colleague Troy Williams, that Amy Ray of the band Indigo Girls has written a song about one of Salt Lake City's independent radio stations, and the feisty, passionate and politically active queer community in Utah.Go read about the song, "SLC Radio" over at Troy's blog: http://www.queergnosis.com/queergnosis/2008/08/slc-radio-from.html. People always ask me why ...
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