Matt Maloney and I married in a spectacularly sunny ceremony at the Red Reflet Ranch in Ten Sleep, Wyoming on September 14, 2019. We had an unprogrammed Quaker-style ceremony, meaning there was no officiant. Quakers believe that no one person is more divine than any other; they believe that all people have God or divinity …
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Thoughts on Community from Salt Lake City
These last few months have moved at a breakneck pace! Defend my master's thesis, finish graduate school, finish teaching undergraduate course, leave my job at Colorado Review, find a new job, pack and move to Utah, unpack, plan my wedding, start a new job... and--oh yeah--try to squeeze in some time writing and some time outside amid …
Who Says It’s Over?
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 …
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. …
What Dogs Teach Us
In the morning I am careful not to step over any of the pawprints dotting the snow in our yard. In fact, I find one with particularly crisp edges, not yet touched by sunlight, and I squat down to touch the cold circles and corners. I do this because, once this snow is gone, no …
