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hooleydd
Jun 5, 20213 min read
Why I Walk Under a Full Moon in June
I still have that little Navajo blanket and look at it occasionally, touching the geometric pattern, important symbols in Navajo myth. A...
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hooleydd
May 24, 20212 min read
What’s That About Lazy People and Free Money?
Watching him poke and pull at the hinges of our garage door I wondered whether he’d cashed his stimulus check yet—and what he did with...
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hooleydd
May 8, 20213 min read
And Then My Heart With Pleasure Fills
Some people have a preternatural memory when it comes to flower names. I have a friend (a little unassuming lady who wears sweaters with...
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hooleydd
Apr 25, 20213 min read
How to Deal With Vacation Disasters
My back going out was the bad news, but there was some good news too. I was able to quickly locate a grocery store and buy a bottle of...
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hooleydd
Apr 11, 20213 min read
Is It Time for a Train Trip?
For the uninitiated, train travel is wonderful. I began traveling by train years ago because I was afraid to fly. And, though my home is...
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hooleydd
Mar 28, 20213 min read
Where Do You Go To Grieve?
Historically, people have often went to natural spaces like gardens and grottos to find comfort in times of suffering. In 1965 I was just...
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hooleydd
Mar 13, 20212 min read
Fowl play: Judging Meghan and Woody
Humans have a lot in common with chickens, including an unreliable character. Even Shakespeare had something to say about our shared...
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hooleydd
Feb 28, 20213 min read
Getting to Know Each Other Again After Covid
Some people thrived this past year during the pandemic, barely noticing the lock-downs, shut-downs, and shout-downs between the maskers...
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hooleydd
Feb 14, 20213 min read
A Valentine to My Old Baptist Church
Even as a young girl I recognized Brother Griggs was trying to help his congregation find meaning in this life, and hope for a heavenly...
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hooleydd
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Can Our Farm Save the Planet?
It’s a puzzle. The problem is our livelihood and lifestyle. My husband and I are farmers living on the Snake River in Idaho who enjoy...
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hooleydd
Jan 17, 20213 min read
What We Don’t Know About Our Friends and Neighbors
Bea walked over to the table and picked up two large, clear plastic bags each containing a colorful quilt in them. “Look what I’ve been...
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hooleydd
Dec 31, 20202 min read
Reading about the Universe on New Year’s Eve
It occurred to me that I’d never given my younger self much credit for wisdom. I’ve always thought wisdom and the knowledge that...
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hooleydd
Dec 21, 20203 min read
I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die…
She’s on the front lines working as a nurse practitioner in the cardiology unit at our local hospital. I like her attitude. After...
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hooleydd
Dec 6, 20203 min read
Feeling Good this Christmas
“Do you know what’s in plum pudding?” Andrea, my daughter-in-law, asked me as she read the recipe from her cell phone. “Just a wild...
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hooleydd
Nov 21, 20203 min read
Let’s Travel to Another Place…
I’ve been living in the Land of the Sick—and I’m ready to move. To begin with, I’m sick with some kind of non-Covid throat infection,...
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hooleydd
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Bad Times and Hard Luck
Winter is coming and many of us are stuck indoors dodging the coronavirus. Sounds like a good time for an inside joke. Isolating is...
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hooleydd
Oct 25, 20203 min read
Poetry and Electing an Honest Man
Most people are familiar with Robert Frost’s poetry and particularly his most famous, “The Road Not Taken.” When I was in high school I...
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hooleydd
Oct 17, 20202 min read
That Thing We Have in Common with Caterpillar Moths
As Dillard describes it, caterpillar moths like to line up behind a lead caterpillar whose role it is to seek out pine needles, a primary...
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hooleydd
Oct 11, 20203 min read
Not Everyone Wants to Hear an Exercise Evangelist
The only reason I’d attempted a run that day was to lose weight and a four-block jog did nothing to the numbers on my bathroom scale....
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hooleydd
Sep 27, 20202 min read
I’m Afraid of the Air…
Covid, according to the latest from the scientific community, won’t die down until next year some time. The summer wildfires in our...
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