Calico Pen: In search for joy
Poised above the Big Sky country is the maestro, the great conductor. At just the right moment, the baton is lowered, and it is thrust toward the magnificently golden daffodils and …TATATATAH!
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
The Calico Pen: No such word as 'can't' for youth or elders
The 2010 Winter Olympics reminded me that both the haves and the have-nots can hope for a place on the podium, but I suspect that those going home with a medal believed most in their impossible dreams.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
The Calico Pen: Left with painful gap in many ways
How do we say goodbye to lifelong companions? Or, for that matter, how do we possibly go on with without them? Of course, we do, but it is not life as we knew it.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Column: Coloring my hair? It will never happen again
’Tis another season. Now is the season for resolutions and I hereby resolve to never, ever, color my hair again.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS AGO
The Calico Pen: Family rituals important part of holiday season
This time of the year it seems that there are just not enough hours in the day or enough days in the month to do all that we want to do, or all that we “should” do.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
The Calico Pen: Rumors of my maturity are greatly exaggerated
This year the season of maturity, or depending on how you look at it, the incipient decline into winter, arrived before the equinox party even got started.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
The Calico Pen: Piano tales from Marlene to grandson
Marlene had a piano. Marlene had everything.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Column: Mellow time arrives with September
The apples, plucked from the tree, and from the squirrels and rabbits, are in a dark room in the basement.
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Column: Make sure to not miss Montana's state fair
“Our state fair is a great state fair, don’t miss it, don’t even be late!”
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Column: Camping trips, past and present
In what now seems like a long, long time ago, in a faraway land, my parents and I left the city behind in search of a place to get away from it all.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Column: Keeping memories of past alive
Oscar Wilde said, “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.”
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Guest Column: Despite trial outcome, Grace has responsibility in Libby
W.R. Grace and some of the company’s former executives were acquitted from the charges that they knowingly endangered residents of Libby and concealing the health effects of its asbestos mining operation.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Column: In mother's daze for Mother's Day
I officially became an orphan in 1949. That is, I was a motherless child and by definition back then if you were without a mother, you were an orphan.
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Column: Relax, enjoy the rest of the trip
I was eating lunch with my bosom buddy the other day and she raised her eyebrows when I ordered dessert. “A nice apple crisp topped with vanilla ice cream, please.”
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Column: Having eight kids is great - one at a time
Well, it’s true that eight ain’t enough for a baseball team, but I had eight kids one time – one at a time that is – and not every team needs a shortstop anyway.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Column: The Januaries: This too shall pass
I think I have the Januaries – cold, bored, cranky and tired of winter.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Column: The gift becomes part of family
Do you hear what I hear, ringing through the sky?
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