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I recently accepted a seasonal position with Boulder County Parks and Open Space, and interpretive and outreach position very similar to what I had been doing with the National Park Service. When I shared the news with my family, they were a bit confused. One of my relative asked if…
Continue readingEver since I was young, I have been fascinated with log homes or log cabins. There’s something so romantic and utterly western feeling about living in a home made of logs. It makes me think of the early settlers, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, Little House in the Big Woods….
Continue readingBegins with a single step, or so an ancient proverb says. A co-worker of mine recently quit her job to go hike the Appalachian Trail, which reminded me of how many are preparing to start the journey of a thousand miles or more this month. April is perenially the month that…
Continue readingBefore I moved to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, I had my first taste of mountain living in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California back in the 1990s. I had what I fondly referred to as a “Young Life” crisis and ditched my job at a consulting firm in Washington,…
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