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It’s a question I ask myself almost everyday, and I will try to answer here: 1. Because I’ve been thinking about my childhood a lot these days. I guess it’s inevitable; my daughters are 3-and-a-half and one-and-a-half-years old, and I often find myself comparing their experiences to mine. Horses dominated my childhood. My mother says […]
It’s been one of those days—when beauty and horror break against each other, when at one moment the world seems startlingly cruel but gentle the next.
When my husband Jesse and two of his friends from veterinary school set out for a weekend fishing trip in West Virginia’s Canaan Valley, they weren’t planning to pick up a hitchhiker.
In Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey wrote, “When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country’s rivers and streams, that country is no longer fit to live in. Time to move on, to find another country or—in the name of Jefferson—to make another country.”
I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately, ever since Freedom Industries’ storage tanks leaked a toxic chemical(s) into the Elk River in Charleston, WV…