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hooleydd
Nov 103 min read
A Dinner Party
I went to a dinner party last night with some friends. When my husband and I parked in front of their house, I noticed the barren...
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hooleydd
Jul 153 min read
The Velvet Air
About five years ago I saw Garrison Keillor perform his radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” on an outdoor stage in Boise, Idaho. He...
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hooleydd
Mar 28, 20233 min read
Real Men Eat Real Food
My son, John is visiting this week, and several times my heart has thrilled to hear him utter four little words, “I’ll make dinner...
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hooleydd
Jan 5, 20233 min read
The Final Frontier Is Not Outer Space
It’s winter and the Snake River running behind my house is as grey as the clouds above it. With the passing of another year I’m thinking...
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hooleydd
Nov 26, 20223 min read
It's Our Turn to Mother Nature
It was a spectacular sight watching two eagles fight each other as they hovered in front of our bay window. Folk singer John Denver once...
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hooleydd
Sep 1, 20223 min read
The Age of Passion
For the eighth day, I stared out the eighth floor window of the Hotel Elkhart. Below me spread the Midwestern town I grew up in. I’d...
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hooleydd
Jun 18, 20223 min read
Remembering a Man Who Knew Martin Luther King
Have you ever noticed that funerals for younger people are often much larger than funerals for the elderly? Especially if the elderly...
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hooleydd
May 18, 20223 min read
Owning a Piece of the Oregon Trail: the Things We Found
I took a walk on the Oregon Trail this morning. The southern leg of the Trail goes through part of our farm. I bushwacked my way around...
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hooleydd
Apr 16, 20223 min read
Celebrating Easter with a War Going On
Did you know Easter is the most important holiday on the church calendar in Ukraine? I found this interesting tidbit browsing through a...
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hooleydd
Apr 2, 20223 min read
What the West Needs and How to Get It
On was on vacation, driving through Louisiana when I looked around me and thought: this is what the West needs: water. The ground was so...
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hooleydd
Feb 22, 20223 min read
The Three O'clock Devil
It’s three o-clock in the afternoon and for no discernable reason, I pace through my house opening first the front door and then the...
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hooleydd
Jan 24, 20223 min read
Trail Talk in Arizona: The Recipe for Cactus Tacos and Good Human Beings
The trail to Wasson ridge in Tucson’s Saguaro National Park was pitiless. Sharp rocks and barbed cactus everywhere. But near the top, the...
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hooleydd
Dec 27, 20213 min read
Night Sky Surprises Above the Snake River
On Idaho’s Snake River there’s little light pollution at night to dim the stars of a December sky. The moon is bright, but when its...
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hooleydd
Dec 18, 20213 min read
A Christmas Wedding
The wedding was a week before Christmas so the flowers were poinsettias. The bride wore a long ruby-red gown, and not just because it was...
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hooleydd
Nov 24, 20213 min read
What Yoga Does for Your Spirit
What can you do with your body when you’re older? You can walk your body—sometimes. And stretch it. But how far? That’s the question that...
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hooleydd
Oct 29, 20213 min read
The Ghost at the Old High School and Other Visions and Dreams
In the spirit of the Halloween season, I’d like to make a confession, I have never seen a ghost. But, I visited a ghost town, met a ghost...
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hooleydd
Sep 30, 20213 min read
Remember the School You Went to and the Good Memories You Have?
Recently, I drove by the school my husband went to when he was a boy. It’s a lovely old building, a private residence now, but full of...
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hooleydd
Aug 29, 20213 min read
Before the Smoke and Fire, One Last Trip to the Woods
Wes, Doris, and Nina all accepted my invitation. Wes and Doris, my husband’s parents, and my mother, Nina, would enjoy a mountain drive...
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hooleydd
Jul 30, 20213 min read
Tragedy on the Snake River
In the summer the Snake River is sluggish-looking and seems to meander. There’s mossy patches and the water level is lower. People forget...
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hooleydd
Jul 1, 20213 min read
I Began to Feel Better When I saw the American Flag
“Why won’t you come with the rest of our class to Switzerland?” he asked me. It was the Christmas holidays and several of my classmates...
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