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hooleydd
Sep 27, 20203 min read
South Africa Comes to an Idaho Farm
“The jackal went streaking past me while I held the irrigation pipe!” Christopher Robin told me, as wide-eyed and innocent as the...
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hooleydd
Sep 12, 20203 min read
The Old South Can’t Solve the New Covid
Recently, both the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, unlike other colleges who’ve gone online, are dealing with...
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hooleydd
Aug 30, 20203 min read
Reality TV Has the Answers
What can I say? Last summer at this time I was reading a prize-winning book about brain chemistry, and this summer I’m into fat and...
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hooleydd
Aug 15, 20202 min read
A Wind that Blows Nobody Good
Ill winds have been part of my history—and as a matter of fact, greater Chicago too. I grew up not too far from the “windy city” in...
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hooleydd
Aug 2, 20203 min read
Stuck and Stranded
Did I mention the temperature outside according to my car dash read 95 degrees? I muttered to myself as I stalked along. How could I be...
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hooleydd
Jul 19, 20203 min read
Science Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
It was a family mystery I attempted to solve several years ago when I visited ninety-five year old Uncle Clay. Clay was the only one...
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hooleydd
Jul 6, 20203 min read
Corona Summer 2020
There’s an old jazz standard entitled “Summertime” and it’s most well-known and oft repeated line is: “Summertime…and the livin’ is...
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hooleydd
Jun 22, 20203 min read
A Way to Cope, a Way to Rest
People find all kinds of ways to cope during difficult times. The plague of coronavirus coupled with the anger and divisiveness that’s...
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hooleydd
Jun 6, 20203 min read
A Reckoning on Racism at a Resort
I was floating in the heated pool at the Sun Valley Lodge when I heard protesters in the parking lot shout, “Black lives matter!! Black...
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hooleydd
May 31, 20202 min read
I’ll Cry Tomorrow…
Today, alcoholism is classified as a disease, and a certain segment of alcoholics prefer to manage their addiction as opposed to fully...
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hooleydd
May 17, 20203 min read
Cutting our Coronahair
Like most people, I’m a hapless headmower at best. I didn’t let my shortcomings deter me from cutting my husband’s hair though. His...
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hooleydd
May 3, 20203 min read
Remember the Life You Led in the 1990’s?
One of my cherished morning rituals, when I couldn’t get my kids out of bed to go to school, was to blast Guns N’ Rose’s “Welcome to the...
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hooleydd
Apr 19, 20202 min read
The Upside of Emotional Eating
Liver and onions? Really? A friend told me about this women serving a dinner of liver and onions to a man on their first date. The...
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hooleydd
Apr 12, 20203 min read
Remembering an Easter Story During the Coronavirus Plague
The Flannel Graph board was mounted on an easel, and as Sister Gibson recounted the Bible story, she’d press paper cut-out Bible figures...
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hooleydd
Mar 29, 20203 min read
Retreating from Coronavirus
Circle the wagons! We’re in retreat! This wagon (me) has been circling and circling my living room the past couple weeks, building...
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hooleydd
Mar 15, 20203 min read
Corona virus, Shopping Sprees, and Misadventures with a Bat
“What’s with people hoarding toilet paper?” my daughter asked me over the phone. She’d called to check up on her dad. “I’m not sure. ...
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hooleydd
Mar 8, 20203 min read
The Past is Not Dead
No, it wasn’t a dream, but I felt dazed, like I’d taken too long a nap. Maybe I time traveled because I’d spent part of this winter in a...
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hooleydd
Feb 23, 20203 min read
Sleeping with Strangers
Reportedly, Stu spent many hours in the hotel hot tub waiting for the call from Hollywood. But motels are mainly built for transient...
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hooleydd
Feb 9, 20203 min read
Finding winter on the Idaho-Montana border…
I really didn’t miss winter this year. It wasn’t until I drove to Leadore, Idaho, a town I’d never visited, that I was reminded of the...
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hooleydd
Jan 26, 20202 min read
How Curiosity Killed the Cow-girl
I have friends and relatives though, that want nothing to do with eating meat—for a variety of reasons. Some have become vegetarian or...
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