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The Winged Life
He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives […]
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The Hard Prayer
For this post, I excerpt the prologue of my memoir, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, a Colorado Book Award Finalist, […]
Tilting Toward Embrace
On the coldest morning of the season, when the day dawns just above zero and the expected high is only 5 degrees; […]
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Lucia & Me
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw he cigarettes away: that’s […]
Late Bloomer
A reader recently called Rough Beauty—a fairy tale. She was not being kind. At first I laughed. Anyone who knows me knows I […]