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Deer Hunting

June 4, 2023May 25, 2023

It’s deer hunting season north of here. So I hear. My first copy editing job was for a fishing and hunting quarterly. When I took the job I was sad that unlike campus or advocacy work, I wouldn’t be around queer people all day. I met a number of hunters. Listened to their tall tales….

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A Love Letter to Writers is Like a Box of Chocolates

May 26, 2023May 25, 2023

Hey My Fellow Writers! Do you love metaphors? I love a metaphor like a baby, any baby of any size, loves the geometrical thrill that is the gridlines in a box of chocolates! I even love the orange cream ones the baby tries and then spits out, her palate not ready for the complexities of…

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God Help Me, I’m Recommending Reality Television

May 12, 2023January 25, 2023

Blogging about the personal (and not so personal) details of your life? Feel like you’re missing out on your potential audience since you’re not limber enough to be on JackAss and not ethnic/weird enough to be on Survivor? It seems like Fox has got the show for you: The Moment of Truth. I’ll admit, I’m…

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No Static at All

May 8, 2023January 25, 2023

My mother, as I mentioned before, lives in a remote part of western Montana: the Seeley-Swan Valley. This 80-mile-long valley is between two massive mountain ranges, the Missions and the Swans, and two federally-designated wilderness areas, the Bob Marshall and the Mission Mountains. There’s no cell phone, cable television or radio reception. Land lines, dial-up,…

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Like Father, Like Daughter

May 3, 2023January 25, 2023

During World War Two my father, a then-17-year-old mariner in the in Merchant Marine, spent some time in Panama. One night, he and his fellow mariners left their ship, went ashore and tied one on in a local bar. My father woke up the next morning in a strange bed. He rolled over, and found…

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Rumble in the Jungle

April 27, 2023January 25, 2023

So, here’s a funny (ha-ha or strange, I haven’t decided) story from my trip to Oregon: I was at Breitenbush Hot Springs on Halloween. It’s a natural hot springs located in the Cascades just east of the state capital, Salem. It’s owned by an “intentional community”, or, as they used to be called back in…

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Just One More Reason I’m Going to Hell

April 17, 2023January 25, 2023

I heard about this yesterday as it was all my mother could talk about for hours (she has her own little rotary list, only she calls everyone on it). When told the news I can’t say I remarked in a shocked way or even feigned interest – Felicia was on the very periphery edge of…

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BDJUJU

April 3, 2023January 19, 2023

I mentioned in an earlier post that my car’s seen a lot of damage. None of it is my fault. Penny’s been through a lot. (I named her Penelope when I bought her years ago, and now I can’t remember why. Everyone else calls her “The Pooper”.) Three years ago, I was t-boned by a…

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I Like Amy

March 30, 2023January 19, 2023

I’m co-hosting a party at a friend’s house tomorrow night for a local political candidate. The real hostess has placed me in charge of the cheese platter and dessert. I’ve turned to one of my heroines for inspiration. No, silly, not Julia Child. Amy. My dessert will be her Three Way Cake with Sloppy Seconds….

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Defacer

March 25, 2023January 19, 2023

Just a quick aside to the person who checked out Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything before me from the Missoula Public Library: thanks. No, I mean it. It wasn’t enough for me to appreciate Hitchens’ wit and intellect. I wouldn’t have pumped my fist in the air and said “Yes!”…

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