mountains
September 29, 2009
- Once asked where I like to hike, I answered, "Where ever it appears that man has not gone." It seemed like a simple answer then. Yet, now as I bury myself in my writing on a daily basis, I find myself analyzing words and phrases in a much different way. I realize now, that in the many years I claimed I had no love for poetry, and was not the "type to sit and write a ...
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July 23, 2009
- You know what it’s like with intoxicants. First time you try them you’re generally a bit sniffy about the experience, or the experience is a bit sniffy about you. Either way, it doesn’t really work like you would want it to work. But human beings are nothing if not stubborn, so we stick at it until the sniffiness goes away, and we’re knocking back the narcotic or stimulant or whatever it ...
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February 11, 2009
- You can take the story away from the girl, but you can't take the girl away from the story.But I have to admit, all this snow has changed the story. I am now hot on the trail of Keystone, Colorado's own very cool story, which I plan to post on Friday...if I live that long. Let me say that this going skiing thing is the perfect way to get my mind off of edits and revisions, mostly because I'm ...
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February 9, 2009
- My family apparently decided an intervention was necessary. I think it all started when I told my husband I was chomping down radishes like they were going out of style and chocolate was next...Anyway, I've been kidnapped - in a nice way - and made to live in the real world this week. And what a world it is. I'm in Colorado for a week. I'm not mustering any sheep this week I don't think. My ...
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January 10, 2009
- Here in the Rocky Mountains, we've had record winds. Over at the tiny hamlet of Ward, not but a dozen miles as the raven flies, they clocked the blasts last week at 108mph. That's hurricane force, by anyone's standards. The weather-person says it's the La Niña jet stream that's causing this upheaval. Wind pounds against the side of our cabin each night, the pines groan as they try to bend and ...
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December 10, 2008
- We have had days of snow here in the mountains, but this morning, the sun came out and began to shrink the mounds of white and set the glaciers on the roof to dripping at the eaves. The Ponderosa pines—so thankful for the big drink they have waited for nearly the whole fall—celebrate with shiny green needles and wine-colored cones drunk with snowmelt. I permit myself a few delicious moments ...
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September 17, 2008
- Traveling north on highways through eastern Georgia, we stopped at a roadside stand of an orchard owner for directions, a bag of apples, and a jar of sugarless Muscatine jelly, which has added the sweet grape flavor to our breakfast toast here at Woodsong. I also couldn’t resist a paper bag of horehound candies, a treat my father used to bring home from Rixlebin Pharmacy in Jonesboro and ...
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July 22, 2008
- I watch a raven perch on a large green pottery dish I have set out on a stump just at the edge of the woods. I fill the dish for the birds most days with water from one of the rain barrels. It is the hot, dry, dangerous height of summer in the mountains. The raven dips a black beak into the liquid and drinks, repeating this gesture over and over again, returning upright after each sip to survey ...
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June 2, 2008
- Book promotion is challenging at best, as most of you know, and having survived three days of intense book marketing, I can tell you it works, but not unless you work it. Accidental Cowgirl was barely at the galley stage by the time last year's Book Expo America, and I fear that in the crush of humanity that was last year's New York show, the mountains, and the beautiful streams of Twin Creeks ...
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