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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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