This post originally appeared in my weekly newspaper column in the Lewistown News-Argus and the Sidney (Mont.) Herald on July 4, 2009. This was before Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter. This was before we debated the virtue of taking a knee, before teenagers were organizing national school walkouts in support of gun control, […]
Category: Introspection
Sometimes I just need to take a break from the world. It isn’t that I don’t love the world. It’s the exact opposite. Sometimes I love the world too much to bear. Like so many others, I have a tough time with balance. I am an all-or-nothing person. When I’m in the world, I want […]
My grandpa died recently. He was 92. He was born in 1928. He spent nearly his entire life on the same Central Montana ranch where he grew up. He was quiet and kind and wise. He had strong opinions but he usually kept them to himself. He changed my life forever when he said, “When […]
We talk a lot about empowering girls these days. They can do anything! They can be strong and assertive and smart! And they can! For generations, females have been put into a box that only fit a select few. The rest of us have been cramped, crammed, and stifled. Certainly it’s time to open the […]
Life is crazy good. My birthday was on Saturday. I slept in both days this weekend. My husband got up, made pancakes and eggs, brought me my smoothie, let me read and scroll social media. On Saturday morning he brought me an amazing card and placed it on the bedside table next to me. The […]
For eight and a half years I wrote a newspaper column that followed the adventures and misadventures of my family, as well as the musings and random thoughts of my complicated, simple mind. It was a study in contradictions, much like myself. Much like all of us. My column traced the years where I thought […]
