“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.” ― Stephen King, The Shining • • • Most people can identify the significance of the hotel … [Read more...] about Finding Literary Inspiration at the Stanley Hotel
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Photo Friday: Mobile, Alabama
Alabama may conjure images of Forrest Gump and the like, but the state is more diverse than most people realize. If you've ever visited coastal Mobile, you might feel as though you're in New Orleans or Savannah. The row houses and bougainvillea evoke similar images. First settled as a fort in … [Read more...] about Photo Friday: Mobile, Alabama
On Respecting Our National Parks
The past six months have been ripe with stories of idiocy in the American National Parks System. At Yellowstone alone, there was the Chinese tourist fined for collecting water from the thermal springs, the Canadian YouTubers who went off the path at Grand Prismatic, the American man who died falling … [Read more...] about On Respecting Our National Parks
Photo Friday: Mormon Row, Grand Tetons, Wyoming
Like many parts of the West, the area now known as the Grand Tetons were settled by followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the late 1800s. They started homesteads in what became Jackson, Wyoming with plenty of room for their large families. Community was important to … [Read more...] about Photo Friday: Mormon Row, Grand Tetons, Wyoming
A City Girl’s Weekend in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
The first stop on my sister and I's national park road trip was Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I had no idea what to expect, but my sister spent two weeks in the town in 2010, the same year that I took a similar trip that would change my life. She stayed with childhood friends of my grandmother's who … [Read more...] about A City Girl’s Weekend in Jackson Hole, Wyoming