I spent much of my 82 years as an advocate of education, environment and political causes. I wanted public lands protected so I could continue to enjoy Wyoming’s wild, beautiful landscapes with its abundance of wildlife. Those public lands have provided a living for many good folks. I’ve bee…
A year ago I joined the Democratic Party, though many of my positions were once considered Republican. This column explains why.
1. COVID IS HIGHLY CONTAGEOUS. The COVID pandemic captured my full attention back in March. I even wrote a column about the preventative measures that we needed to take to protect ourselves from spreading this horrid disease (“Adjusting to the new normal”).
Okay, now that we have 2020 in our rear-view mirror, what do we foresee for 2021? This is my annual prediction column. First, we are not done with COVID-19. Not by a long shot. A few thousand doses of vaccine have reached the state and it might take a lot longer to get our folks vaccinated t…
Several years back, when I was a reporter and editor with the Polk County Democrat in Bartow, Florida, I seized upon an assignment. Then Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam — who, in my opinion, should have been Florida’s current governor instead of Ron DeSantis, had it not been for “dark m…
It is the thing that always defines a nation. How is it that a nation that produced people like Audie Murphy, Neil Armstrong and Captain Sullenberger cannot find a justice or judge with the courage to protect the Constitution of this country.
New Year’s Eve comes once a year, but this year there is more. There is uncertainty. There is no clear future. There is COVID.
… that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have hopes and dreams, as well as the desire and motivation to pursue these.
On Christmas Eve I was watching the PBS program on Fred Rogers, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” I am thinking of him right now as I write this on Christmas day 2020.
More swell thoughts as we limp our way through the final month of this rotten, colonoscopy of a year:
Torture. That’s what it was. Pure torture.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.”
During a 2019 road trip through nine states, I stumbled on to an interesting factoid: the longest highway in America bisects Wyoming.
For most of us in Wyoming, 2020 brought many challenges. As we head into 2021, we can celebrate a new year with some much-needed encouraging news: We have multiple effective vaccines for COVID-19.
I remember taking our small son to see Santa. His grandmother wanted it to happen so we went to the mall and stood in line, a very long line. I was pregnant with our daughter so standing made me uncomfortable. When it was Shawn’s turn, at last, he was lifted to Santa’s lap and started crying…
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to intervene in the 2020 election at the behest of a lawsuit brought by Texas that 17 other states also signed on. (Governor Gordon made sure Wyoming didn’t join in.)
Okay, it’s Christmas and it’s time to buy gifts.
From what I’ve been told, relations between the Rawlins Times and Carbon County Commissioners has been strained the past year; perhaps longer than that. I’ve been told that the prior editor, not the interim editor until I arrived, stepped on people’s toes, and none too politely at that.
DEAR ABBY: I'm writing because I'm torn. My mother-in-law recently retired and wants to gift stocks to all of her grandchildren. However, my husband refuses to accept them on behalf of our son. We also didn't deposit her wedding and baby shower gifts to us. (Both were checks.) We just kept t…
Three percent. That’s about the percentage of colonists who fought the British in the Revolutionary War. It’s actually more than the normal percent that join a nation’s military.
DEAR ABBY: My 34-year-old daughter lives with me to get ahead on her student loans. She has a good job, pays rent and has a serious boyfriend. My niece, her cousin, recently died by suicide, and naturally, we are all devastated, but my daughter took the news especially hard. I had to be out …
