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Grant Park and downtown Chicago from my friend’s boyfriend’s 21st floor amazing condo: I worked on my upcoming craft lecture all afternoon with this view of Lake Michigan: Oh, and I [...]

My dear friend Maranda, who I met during last winter’s Jentel Foundation Residency, hosted me for 2 nights in Omaha. As a parting gift, she adorned the elk antler with a polka dotted [...]

500 miles from Cheyenne, WY to Omaha, Nebraska. It was a breeze-through state. Sorry Nebraska, for pictures, this is all you get: It was a driving day of serendipity more than place. I’d [...]

1 driver + 2 shots espresso + 3 cups coffee + 13 1/2 hours = 750 miles Stanley, ID to Cheyenne, WY Goodbye Sawtooth Valley (from 8700′ pass): Hello beginning of Utah’s Wasatch Range: [...]

Stayed in Stanley for the day…and what a day it was! Little hike up the “hill” behind John and Julie’s house. Here’s the cairn/rock sculpture John’s been [...]

Joseph, OR to Stanley, ID via all two-lane highways, back roads, or Forest Service Roads: Hell’s Canyon Overlook, Goodbye Wallowas 🙁 THE CLAW wants to eat this very slow driver along the [...]

Time has flown by and I leave tomorrow morning… Tuesday’s new thing was a road trip to the northern reaches of Wallowa County. I stopped at Flora, Paradise, and Joseph Canyon overlook: [...]

Monday’s new thing was a visit to Wallowa County’s pride and joy, Siroptimist Thrift Store. According to just about everyone on Planet Wallowa, this is a must-see place. Incessant rain on Monday [...]

Sunday’s new thing was a hellaciously wonderful bike ride with Eric, my tried and true let’s-do-fun-stuff pal in Wallowa County. I don’t think I’ve ever had a friend like him, and he’d be totally [...]

Saturday’s “new thing” was a late spring leap into the frigid Wallowa Lake. This lake, mind you, sits at 4400 feet elevation outside a town that had snow as recently as last Thursday. It is four [...]