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Double Down - A Blog
Oct 11, 2018 |
October is my favorite month, even if, growing up in Las Vegas, it didn’t feel remotely autumnal until Halloween, not coincidentally my favorite holiday (even if so many of...
Oct 4, 2018 |
When I decided to move to Reno to join my husband, who had just started his master’s program at the University of Nevada...
Sep 27, 2018 |
It’s a quiet September Saturday, and I’m thinking hard about how fragile life, civilization, and everything really are. Not because something’s wrong, at least not in my immediate world, but rather...
Sep 13, 2018 |
The poet read this poem at Reno’s 150th birthday kick off in the City Center to a
celebratory crowd that included the Mayor of Reno and City Council members.
We’re fifth generation or we moved here last month.
Here? We’re tired of reminding you how to use
your tongue. We’ll say it the right way and hope
you catch on, and those are Mountain Bluebirds,
not Blue Jays, they slipped into the big sky
to remind us of transience. Happiness comes at a price,
and we need...
Sep 6, 2018 |
One writes out of one thing-one’s own experience everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from...
Aug 30, 2018 |
Pershing County: 100 Years was born out of a neighborhood in Lovelock, Nevada, where four friends lived — where four generations of their families met, gathered, talked, and told stories based on the history of that part of northern Nevada. Lovelock’s arms embraced...
