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hooleydd
Dec 25, 20192 min read
Night skies at Christmas: all is calm, all is bright
One night many years ago I was watching the sky and saw a remarkable thing. All the stars were twinkling except one. It looked like a...
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hooleydd
Nov 2, 20193 min read
I heard the boom of a shotgun…
A penguin was standing on the welcome mat when I opened my front door. It was Halloween, and I had a fistful of miniature Snicker bars...
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hooleydd
Oct 2, 20193 min read
I’m Going Back to the Plough
Before the coronavirus raised its ugly head and scared everyone away from the city, I lived there part-time while I taught at a local...
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hooleydd
Sep 17, 20192 min read
We Ken Drive the Alcan–No Problem
(How long is the Alcan Highway? When was it built? What does the British Commonwealth have to do with the Alcan?) If life is a journey,...
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hooleydd
Sep 9, 20192 min read
Big is Beautiful
The tall guard at the Canadian-Alaskan border crossing asked me to take off my sunglasses so he could compare my physical appearance to...
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hooleydd
Sep 3, 20192 min read
Going Wild in Alaska
Suddenly I’m keenly aware of how much it takes to keep me operative. “Where’s your sense of adventure?” my husband chides me. Dale’s...
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hooleydd
Aug 20, 20193 min read
Battling the Bruneau Beast
“Oh mom, you are so competitive. You know that right?” I shrugged. She sounded like the mature adult next to my adolescent resistance....
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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
Jul 2, 20192 min read
Buying Fireworks at the Reservation
We drove through the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on the Idaho-Nevada border this past week, and I thought about the many times my...
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hooleydd
May 28, 20192 min read
Hope is the Thing With Feathers
To those of you who ask why raise chickens, I say why not? Especially during the age of coronavirus, companion animals can be an...
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hooleydd
May 21, 20192 min read
Hanging on to Democracy
“Could it be a meteor? Maybe a little chunk of meteor rock fell from the sky into my back window,” I suggested. He looked at me...
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hooleydd
May 7, 20193 min read
Out of the Suburbs and Into the Desert
I grew up in a little box of a house in an Indiana suburb. There were houses on either side of us and one across the street. As far as...
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hooleydd
Apr 10, 20193 min read
Snake River Canyon
I remember the first time I really looked at the canyon and noticed it’s beauty. I was newly married and had just moved to a desert farm...
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hooleydd
Apr 2, 20192 min read
I Am Not a Dog Lover
How does anyone like dogs? They eat their own poo (well, some do) and like to roll around in dead fish or worse, my flower beds. They...
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hooleydd
Feb 26, 20193 min read
Surviving Donner Pass
“Mom, do you know anything about putting chains on tires?” She looked at me horrified—and I shrugged. It was an old habit, asking mom for...
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hooleydd
Feb 19, 20192 min read
A True Idahoan
If an Idahoan ran for president, would it be apparent he’s from Idaho? How would an Idahoan be viewed in the political spotlight? George...
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hooleydd
Jan 10, 20192 min read
Lost in California
“You have to understand . . . ,” he paused a second, both of us were breathing heavy from race-walking, “. . . I grew up in New York.”...
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hooleydd
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Milford, Utah
I’ve taken several road trips through the West since airplane travel is not my favorite form of terror. The upside of a flying phobia is...
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