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Totally Quanked and in Search of Our Own Personal Pickleball

Yes, it's a proper word. I didn't make it up, but I wish I had. Quanked is in the 1893...
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Horsewoman, Has Your Neighborhood Gone to the Dogs?

I traipsed across Minnesota and North Dakota through factory farms and cemeteries this summer. Trying to link childhood memories with...
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Falling in Love All Over Again for the First Time

Coming home, the washboard road is as close to a drumroll as we'll get. We are bleary-eyed and dog-tired. I...
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The Cemetery of My People, Part Two

Road trips have a feeling of being unstuck anyway, but this trip to the land of my people was like...
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Traveling to the Cemetery of My People, Part One

Mister is barking in a steady rhythm. His metronome bark. Consider it a warning siren. He knows. There is a...
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Shhh… We’re Being Watched.

The week started with a needle in my forehead. You just knew it was going to improve. Then each day...
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Jolene and the Healing Quality of Dog Spit

I can't remember having leaves so early on our high desert prairie. Shade is scarce since losing our trees. There's...
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Being Cantankerous Because I Feel Like It

Last week I raved about my beautiful but desolate riding arena at the front of my little farm. My other...
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Aging Cantankerously: Downsize This!

Ten days after solstice and it's already staying light longer. Want to wish me a happy one-year-older? On January first,...
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Hungover, Jolene Meets The Weather of Her People

The leftovers are gone, the pie plates back in the cupboard, and Parental Peas, Parker and Penny, have headed back...
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