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In May of 2025, I went to Mountainfilm in Telluride with my BFF Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. We watched numerous amazing films, but there’s one that continues to haunt me, eight months later.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin is a documentary filmed by Pavel (Pasha) Talankin. Here’s the synopsis published in the festival guide:...

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about stuff lately. My mother died at the end of June 2024. She lived the last 39 years of her life in a tidy but full house, surrounded by books, photos, treasures, and memories of travels.
It took a year and a half to transform the house from a cozy den of treasures to the white walls and bare wood I handed over to the new owners last week, and I had a lot of help. Before my parents died, I often wondered how this would go, and worried...

This is the worst time of year for me, for all the reasons. The weather, for one. In January, the length of time until warmth settles seems unbearably long. The prolonged dark (and yes, I know the days are getting longer now, but still) feeds on energy...

I’m writing a book about mountain lions and it’s down to weeks, days, pages flying, margins scratched and scribbled, when news comes of a 46-year-old woman killed by such a cat a couple hundred miles from where I live. She’d been hiking alone on New...