By Marguerite Jill Dye A friend on Facebook from South Africa posted a quote that has helped me see it’s time for me to change my focus: “I cannot put it to you more simply than this: As long as […]
Category: Column
Column, The Outside Story
Winter bird rehabilitation faces extra challenges
By Leah Burdick An injured barred owl sat in the back seat of a four-door sedan, staring balefully out the window at its rescuer. “I saw him on the side of the road, just sitting there, trying to fly,” the […]
Altitude Sickness, Column
Making lemonade when life gives you (lots of) lemons
I have been sitting here, pondering all of the ways life goes wrong. I have been thinking of all of the things that have happened to me, dozens of injuries, dozens of broken bones (ostensibly more than a dozen broken […]
Column, Looking Back
The shortcuts we took
As we all know, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. During the aging process we sometimes take the “long way ‘round” to go places and do things. If you are with the love of your life, […]
Column, Generation Y
IMDb vs. Oscar
My girlish interest in the Academy Awards is surely fairly obvious to frequent readers of this column, given the truly embarrassing number of times I’ve written here about the Oscars (including last week, in what was, upon reflection, possibly least […]
Column
The Russians are coming!
By Marguerite Jill Dye I’ve considered trying my hand at writing fiction for a change, but who needs fiction when each day brings a stranger-than-life, unimaginable reality? A Russian spy ship is just offshore and our democratic election and computers […]
Column, The Outside Story
Snow buntings: nomads from the north
By Susan Shea Driving to town on a winter day, I occasionally see flocks of white birds where the wind sweeps across fields, blowing snow across the road and exposing the grass. Rising and falling, the birds look like giant […]
Column
Burgernomics: A Big Mac Index update
By Kevin Theissen Ahh, the Big Mac. Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun. The special sauce actually is not a secret and has been available for years – it consists of […]
Column, Generation Y
Oscar for President
Three months have passed since Bernie Sanders infamously remarked that, in order to win future elections, the Democratic Party would have to “move beyond identity politics.” In a response to a young woman who had asked for his advice regarding […]
Altitude Sickness, Column
Of powder days and a broken spine
What a week of skiing, and what a terrible time to be out with a back injury! Fresh powder every day for a week! I would never, ever be the kind of guy who would ski injured. But to get […]