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Susan Stubson of Casper has been writing Wyoming-based op-ed columns for many years. Most have to do with her family and her husband Tim who...

Daughter Annie has been chronicling her graduation experience on her blog . She graduated from Laramie County Community College on May 14 an...

Russia invaded Ukraine this week. Putin does not want a democracy on its border. The Ukrainians are fighting back. The U.S. knows what joini...

I spent two hours this morning reading Tammy Christel’s Jackson Hole Art Blog and 12 days of posts on Tammy’s Facebook page  about the fall...

Editing and writing. Writing and editing. The two are inseparable. Younger writers, such as myself a half-century ago, write something down ...

Time to take stock of the year that was. I wrote 67 posts this year. Published posts, that is. I wrote 10 or more that I didn't post. Th...

Letter I sent to Wyoming U.S. Senators  Barrasso and Enzi: We are lucky here in Wyoming that we have easy access to voting and competent cou...

It's been more than a month since I posted here. I guess I could say that I'm in the midst of a dry spell. That wouldn't be accu...

I can't remember The Retiree's name. He had worked in my division, Information Services, at Denver's Gates Rubber Company, befor...

Wyoming Sen./Dr. John Barrasso is a hyper-partisan ass-kisser. We see him looming behind Mitch McConnell every time the Senate Majority Le...

I guest-posted today on the Writing Wyoming blog. One of the editors, Cheyenne writer Lynn Carlson, asked to re-post a column in October and...

I am a bit late on this one. Four weeks ago, the remaining members of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigned. I ...

Sitting in my blogging chair since 2005.... I am not a member of the press. I do not represent the mainstream media in any way. I am a b...

Great to see the return of fellow prog-blogger Jeran Artery of Cheyenne. For years, Jeran served as the public face of Wyoming Equality, the...

I've been working on a novel since the spring. I got tired of agents and editors asking me, a short-story writer, if I had a novel. This...

I shouldn't be reading Hunter Thompson this week. I should be reading something hopeful. Last week, during the Republican National Con...

Eight years after... In August 2008, I spent a week as an embedded blogger at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.  We we all so ...

All Democratic Party gatherings tend to draw bigger crowds during presidential election years. That is especially true when the race is a h...

Funny things happen when you're asked to write about writing. You learn stuff about your own work. Lynn Carlson at Writing Wyoming as...

Happy May Day! While many of you bask in May sunshine, we are buried in snow. A moisture-laden three-day snowstorm covered my lawn and gar...