This week I am honored to feature our first guest post from my very own mother Karen Elizabeth Baril. Karen has written more than 400 feature articles in top equestrian magazines including Equus, The Equine Journal, and Trail Rider Magazine. Most recently, she published a creative non-fiction essay in Still Crazy literary magazine. Her career goals …

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                    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”                                                       Anita Desai August in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has been …

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September, ember, member, re-member. Voluptuous word and season. This month at Jamaica Bay, monarch caterpillars hang fat and plentiful on milkweed leaves. Their return (or departure?) seems late but I can't be sure; I've waited so long for them, but what, in a time of progressive hotness, is "in season" anymore? All I know is how …

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Every year for the last four years my girlfriends and I have gone on a week-long hiking and pie-eating adventure in Glacier National Park. That first year it was smoke from several fires burning in and around Yellowstone that inspired Vicki and I to join Diane and Mel on their Glacier adventure. We had so …

Continue reading The Benefits of Getting High With Your Friends

"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."            Theodore Roosevelt Harry S. Yount:   the ‘father of park rangers’. Yellowstone:   The river: 671-692? miles of undammed water (though there are 6 diversion dams that direct water into canals for irrigation) and …

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