I don't feel like a very patriotic person these days. I'm not proud of America—neither now nor of our past. I don't really understand what American culture is and, when I do, it makes me sad and angry to think that foreigners associate Americans with loud, pushy, short-sentenced, nouveau riche, white men. At a Gillian …
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Rest & Relaxation + Nature
I love it when people visit us in Laramie, Wyoming. I love to show them our little house (on the prairie? almost), our fun frontier town, the mountains that surround us, the stark and undeniable beauty of the West. Most of my family came to visit me this summer after a long roadtrip or flight/s. …
A Brief Stay in Glacier National Park
Last week Matt, his family, and I flew into Calgary, Alberta (Canada), drove down to Glacier National Park in Montana, and then drove back to Calgary via Banff National Park (also Canada) on one big tour of some of the west's most picturesque snowy peaks. We only had a week to see these two beautiful …
Announcement: Grad School!
Reading and writing are two of my earliest loves. My mom is fond of recalling how, on my first day in kindergarten, I read aloud Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat for the entire class. When I was perhaps 8 or 9, my dad gave me an old IBM Thinkpad that ran Windows 95. …
“Guest Post” by Boone
Hi, my name is Boone or, at least, I think it is. Sometimes my humans call me Abe, but whenever they do that, they're quick to say "Boone" right after. I was a puppy in Kansas for a while, which was boring because my first home was just a basement, and there was no one …
Meet Us: Matt & Katherine, a Valentine’s Day Post
I was inspired by this blog post from Free People to create a similar question-and-answer format post about Matt's and my relationship. With Valentine's Day coming up, it seemed like a perfect time to do it! I hope you are as uplifted by our answers as I was by Matt's. How did you two meet? …
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When Life Ends But Love Doesn’t
My grandmother, Anne Carter Webster, passed away at home on Tuesday December 15th. She'd been diagnosed with terminal leukemia a week prior to her death. She was 75 years old. My mom asked if I'd write something to read for the funeral last Tuesday, the 22nd. The following is what I wrote, and subsequently read. …
