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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
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
Dec 31, 20182 min read
Happy New Year! Our Pipes Burst! (essay)
While I was dusting the rental house, control though, suddenly became a big problem. I heard a loud thud upstairs followed by my husband...
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hooleydd
Dec 24, 20182 min read
Hot Flash in the Age of Global Warming
Sometimes I’ve wondered, if in a hundred years, we’d call this time period we’re living in—the early 2000’s—the in-between time of...
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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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hooleydd
Nov 24, 20183 min read
Wes is Dying
Wes is Dying My father-in-law Wes, is 97 year old and dying. It’s time and maybe, past time. He was born in November of 1921, three years...
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hooleydd
Nov 2, 20183 min read
Staying Warm in the Winter
How will we stay warm this winter? Two hundred years ago that was a real concern, even a hundred years ago. Most of us are not like Elsa,...
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hooleydd
Oct 14, 20183 min read
Remembering Niagara Falls
I’d never been to Niagara Falls but I’ve been to Shoshone Falls, and how different could they be anyway? Shoshone Falls is spectacular...
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hooleydd
Oct 7, 20183 min read
The Bobcat I Saw
I like to hike Chase’s hill, the one that rises above his house and the Snake River. The gravel road is a steady incline, cut at an angle...
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hooleydd
Sep 19, 20182 min read
Home Work: Nothing to Grumble About
Since Covid-19, some people enjoy the variety of working from home. They feel better about the “drudgery factor” related to their daily...
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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
Aug 16, 20184 min read
Hey Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone!
In 1960 my second-grade teacher was an older woman named Mrs. Peterson. Sometimes she’d stand over me as I worked at my desk and pat my...
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hooleydd
Aug 8, 20182 min read
The Hazardous Drive to the Tetons
What better summer vacation destination can there be than Grand Teton National Park? I’ve seen the Teton’s several times and the...
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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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