My son got a paper route, which means that I, too, have a paper route. Delivering papers now is a bit different than the paper route I had when I was a kid. I’m glad I’m the parent-following-the-kid-in-the-car; it’s a …
Like a good millennial, I love a good meme. This week I made some Wyoming memes for you. If you know, you know.
When my husband’s job transferred us to Laramie, just about everyone we knew laughed and said some variation of “I hear the weather’s terrible!” or “I hope you don’t freeze to death!” I laughed right back in their faces and …
You may have heard that Texas is experiencing a severe-for-them winter storm. Millions of people have lost power, which is annoying any time but ten times worse in the winter. Even though we have much worse weather on the regular …
My kindergartener came home from school last Tuesday absolutely indignant. When I asked her why she was upset she said, “Because it was a holiday today and you didn’t tell me!”
Reader, I was completely baffled. I knew it wasn’t …
I read an article recently about some tourists in Grand Teton National Park that learned the hard way that singing does not actually keep bears away. Which, to be fair, was news to me as well. My family moved to …
Sometimes, when I can’t think of what to write about for this column, I ask on social media what people think about when they hear or read “Wyoming.” Here is a taste of some of those responses:
Longmire. Just Longmire.…
Did you know that the average elevation of the United States is only 2,500 feet? (I read it on the internet, so it has to be true.) And here we are in Laramie, living large at 7,200 feet. An interesting …
My friends from church have planned a virtual activity where we get together over Zoom and talk about things we’ve learned during the pandemic. I imagine some of them learned how to bake bread or maybe mastered a new craft. …
Is your Christmas tree still up? I stopped watering mine about a week after we got it because I somehow forgot about the giant plant in my living room, so it’s been shedding pine needles for weeks. I need this …