Milestones. Traditions. Rites of passage. All phrases we use in delineating the most significant parts of our lives. We remember that first furtive glance, ...
The voicemail from my friend Mike Donaldson, who is also the director at the Central Wyoming College Equine Center, sums up last Thursday afternoon. "I'm ...
Sports, ideally, can be a lesson in altruism, a venue to instill the traits we hope our children will carry with them into adulthood. Among the most obvious ...
There are a few good things as the end of the summer approaches. Most of us thoroughly enjoy the 11 to 13 weeks between last and first frost that mark the ...
A hot wind blew out of the north as I stopped to photograph the crumbling remains of a once-vibrant downtown business district. It could have been right out of ...
I walked into her classroom on the second floor of the old Shoshoni High School and said, "A quivering bowl of estrogen?" "You read it," she replied ...
When you're the center of your own universe, there aren't many other stars out there. By nature, most teen-agers see the world in myopic monochrome, aware of ...
Maybe it's the heat of summer, maybe it's just a bit of melancholy, or maybe it's just a natural longing for the past, but as I researched an article for an ...
It was inevitable. Someone challenges a thing you hold dear, something you identify with or an image associated with an entire lifestyle and there is ...
When you called the house the greeting was always the same: "Cotton residence, Dick Cotton speaking." It was a throwback to more civil phone conversations ...
On Saturday, the population of South Pass City swelled to a level it had not seen since it finished second to Cheyenne in voting for a location for a Wyoming ...
People, especially teenagers, often complain at being bored. I can honestly say that feeling hasn't bothered me much throughout my life, and it definitely ...
Monday's American Legion baseball game between the Riverton Raiders and the Lovell Mustangs was an entertaining affair with lead changes, double plays, key ...
Three weeks ago we were standing in line to view the greatest political documents of American history. The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill ...
Ahab had the white whale. Frodo and Sam sought Mount Doom. Don Quixote spent his life in endless imaginary quests. I, too, have a quest, but it's not Moby ...
It's Fathers Day again, a celebration that urban legend has beginning in the Spokane, Washington in 1910. Mothers Day has a much clearer history dating back ...
I'll begin this saga with a text wife Sue received from Amtrak at 1:47 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday. We were standing in line at the National Archives in ...
Not many people would look to a quote from the silly comedy movie "Happy Gilmore" for political advice, but I find the present insanity perfectly reflected in ...
Many people choose a career, but just a few careers choose people. As a Saturday morning faded into a misty May afternoon at the state track meet, I watched ...
An intriguing program came on PBS earlier in the week. After a day of writing and getting my garden prepped I sat down to scan the channels and see when the ...
Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian author, said it well: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." As I walked across the ...
"Blood, the gift of life," is the motto of the American Red Cross.There is no doubt that blood is just about the most vital component of not only the American ...
It rained a little on Friday. The wind blew a little too. It snowed, rained, the wind blew, and it was a little foggy on Saturday. No this isn't the ...
I'm often asked, "What is (fill in the blank) up to? Is she still playing ball? I sure loved watching him bring the ball up." In a county as far-flung as ...
Today's president vs. TV news game-playing is just about the same. We stayed in a downtown hotel in Denver recently while catching a show at the ...
Some claim the current political divisiveness is reminiscent of the Civil War My wife's family and extended family gathered at my in-laws' home in ...
My education in history and geography began on cross-country drives. Traveling across the wide expanse of America in the 1960s, the subtle ...
