2013: Our squirreliest year yet!
2013 was pretty good to me. I got married to my best friend. ALF was at our wedding. (True story.) I have awesome friends, a loving family and the privilege to live and run in Big Sky Country. My...
View ArticleWhy I’m not drinking (not even a drop)
I woke up on the first day of 2014 the same way I imagine a lot of people did: with a pounding headache and the desire, if I could work out the pertinent details quickly enough, to never move again for...
View ArticleIn which I school a small child at my beginners’ ski lesson. Kind of.
Sometimes, I’m a bad Montanan and forget to go skiing for 15 years. Which is mostly my loss, because it’s one of the few ways to actually enjoy the five-month-long mini Ice Age known as “winter” here....
View ArticleThings I will and will not miss about Great Falls
It is officially official: Zach landed a job at the firm he interned at in law school, so we will be moving back to our beloved Missoula in just a few months! (And possibly sooner for me, depending on...
View ArticleI must leave this place immediately
Someone posted this photo to the Facebook page of a local TV station recently: That is a snake. What kind of snake? A huge-ass one. Just chillin’ out on a sidewalk, right in the middle of the town in...
View ArticleDear Sesame Street: Please stop teaching kids it’s OK to feed wild animals
Not even the squirrels. That’s how serious this is, folks. Though I know I’m not “supposed to,” every once in a while I break down and let my toddler watch a limited amount of TV, because sometimes...
View ArticleAn open letter* to my congressional representatives regarding their...
Dear Sen. Tester, Sen. Daines and Rep. Gianforte, If I am ever gunned down in a massacre carried out by a person who easily acquired a weapon of mass murder, I request that you, as my elected...
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