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The Gift

March 6, 2012

Brace yourself: this post contains another parcel by mail, more shots of the damn dog, some very old news, and the extraordinary and entirely unexpected gift of healing and hope from someone I didn’t even know.

This could get weird for some of you before it gets better.

To set some context, this is as good …

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Kathy’s Valentine Cookbook

February 14, 2012

I don’t think it was necessarily intended to land as a Valentine’s Day gift on the day it was sent…

… but as an incredible gesture of love, it couldn’t have landed on a more perfect day.

Is there anything more wonderful than an unexpected brown paper package from home, sent with a familiar and cherished …

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The Whole Is Greater

February 5, 2012

We should have named him “Gestalt,” for his whole is definitely greater than the sum of his parts.

Don’t get us wrong: the whole of his parts is pretty great, even if he does sit like a splay-legged kangaroo on his guard perch (aka. the southeast window).

And at a lanky 75 pounds, those parts …

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Skijoring in Teton Valley

January 21, 2012

What is it that makes humans crave the experience of hanging on to a rope on friction-reducing platforms behind something that has at least one horse power?

I thought I was familiar with most expressions of this compulsion: water-skiing and wake-boarding, tow-surfing (or is that “surf-towing?” I mean the one where the hero …

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Identity Issues

December 5, 2011

November 20, 2011, was the first time I had downloaded my boarding pass onto my iPhone, and I was feeling like one of the cool kids as I walked up to the TSA podium in Jackson Hole, iPhone and California driver’s license in hand. I had an Ellen DeGeneres “I’m too cool for my …

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