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hooleydd
Aug 13, 20192 min read
The Job of My Dreams
“No you didn’t,” I took a sip of my hot coffee. “You snored all night.” “That wasn’t a snore. That was me grunting, trying to keep up...
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hooleydd
Aug 6, 20193 min read
The Harsh Reality of Life on the Farm
Life gets real on the farm—meaning sometimes cruel. Those of us who live more urbanely, shopping for hermetically sealed dairy, meat,...
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hooleydd
Jul 30, 20192 min read
The Trip to Sun Valley
Maybe my fondness for this book’s title has to do with the fact that I once was an easterner. Like many transplants, I lived other...
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hooleydd
Jun 11, 20193 min read
Feeling the Affects of Chernobyl in Idaho
Watching HBO’s miniseries about the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, I thought of my grandmother Verna. She died of...
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hooleydd
Jan 22, 20192 min read
DeGrazia, Tony Doerr, and J. R. Simplot
Who can understand why some art touches us and not others, or vice-versa? The other evening at a supper party, talk turned to movies...
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hooleydd
Sep 13, 20183 min read
How Are Your Alpha Waves?
My adult son, John, came home for a visit and told me, “Ignore anything I say that sounds off—it’s my suppressed-narcissistic-rage...
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hooleydd
May 6, 20181 min read
Sometimes, a Poem by Sheenagh Pugh
Sometimes (a poem) by Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost;...
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