Heading West: Grand Tetons
We drive out of Yellowstone through the south gate. For a few moments, the drive seems, well, boring compared to the visual feast that was before us all day long.…
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June 18, 2011
Heading West: Yellowstone
We drive into Yellowstone on winding roads between towering snow banks. The east entrance will close at 10 a.m., we are told, because of the risk of avalanches. I stare…
June 15, 2011
Heading West: Winter in June and Buffalo Bill
We leave Deirdre's house early in the morning. We have a long way to go.We drive up Interstate 25, stop in Buffalo and then, Sheridan. It's Memorial Day and the…
June 11, 2011
Heading West: Deirdre and her cowboy
<img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://evilreporterchick.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/deirdre32.jpg?w=300" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616037014890889698" />We meet Deirdre Stoelze Graves in Casper on a day when the clouds have given way to…
June 8, 2011
Wild West: first stop
From Denver airport, we drive to Steamboat Springs -- a place that is as pretty as its name sounds. The slopes are closed for the summer but plenty of people…
June 8, 2011
Get well, my friend
Valerie Boyd is one of the strongest women I know. Fiercely independent, passionate in her defending her views. Certainly, an inspiration to me, ever since I met her years ago…
May 11, 2011
Remembering Ma — and a great poet
I made it through Mother's Day. I thank birthday celebrations for Rabindranath Tagore for keeping the tears at bay. Well, most of the time, anyway.My mother died 10 years ago.…
May 9, 2011
Tet Kale
Michel Martelly, bad-boy musician, is Haiti's next president, according to preliminary results released Monday. He called himself an outsider to Haiti's corrupt political machine and when I met him at…
April 5, 2011
The grimmest of anniversaries
Anniversary stories are common in journalism. A year ago in Haiti, an earthquake devastated the country... Anniversaries a great peg to revisit stories. Number 10 is a big one and…
March 24, 2011
War
Today is the eight anniversary of the Iraq war.That fact got lost in all the breaking news, most significantly, the U.S. use of force against Libya. It reminded me of…
March 20, 2011
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