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The family sat at the picnic table, spreading out their feast. A small girl with braids started giggling uncontrollably. As I walked closer to see what was going on, my heart sunk. Lily Lake teemed with visitors that day. The little girl was feeding a chipmunk peanuts, and it had…
Continue readingI first moved to a small mountain town in the California Sierra twenty years ago. I had wanted to work at a ski resort. So I packed up all my belongings while living in the suburbs of Washington, DC and moved to Mammoth Lakes, California. One of the most challenging…
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As I drove up Foothills Parkway, traffic slowed to a crawl. The culprit? A pack of cyclists. Which logically makes no sense. There’s a substantial bike lane on Route 36 several feet wide that more than accommodates a cyclist without infringing on the flow of traffic. But what’s that saying…
Continue readingWe waited and waited and waited. I’d been excited to have my family visit our Nederland home for the first time since we moved here. They’d flown into Denver and rented a car to make the 1-hour drive to our mountain home. Living off of a private dirt road, I’d…
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