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Today's Reason to Smile: Snowflakes
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley loved snowflakes, and devoted more than forty years to observing and photographing them. The tiny frozen...
Jun 19, 20241 min read


My theft was a victimless crime. Or was it?
Stealing always hurts SOMEONE. It always causes pain, it always creates a victim. Even if it hurts no one else, it harms the person who stea
Jun 19, 20243 min read


Five Strategies Winston Churchill Used to Beat Depression
Winston Churchill was a self-proclaimed optimist who battled recurring bouts of depression all his life. He called depression a “black...
Jun 19, 20244 min read


Today's Reason to Smile: Proghorn
Strolling along a fence line in Rolling Hills, Wyoming, I found myself on the same side of the fence as a group of proghorn. (We never call them that here, we call them antelope, despite decades of patient instruction by wildlife biologists. Biologists share painstaking research of the proghorn genetic line to prove to us they aren't antelope, and we all say that's very interesting, and call them antelope anyway, just like we call the fluffy death cows buffalo and not bison.
Jun 11, 20243 min read


A Time and Place for Forgiveness
If you want to cross the English Channel, and have your name officially ratified and posted in the short list of successful...
May 25, 20243 min read
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