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    what an apt description–I know that feeling too! Like thumbing the wheel of a lighter when there’s not enough fuel…

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    I do enjoy each obsession as it’s upon me… But I will say that some of them are more USEFUL…

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  • Blacked Out, and Snowstorm-Driving for Dummies

    In my drinking days, that title would have heralded a very different kind of post…  But these days I’m Sober and it’s the internet that was Blacked Out yesterday.  In my case, not just Wikipedia, but the whole damn web. Probably everyone who tried to use the web yesterday became aware (if they hadn’t been…

  • Subterranean Splendors–Shoshone Ice Caves

    Catching up… The final stop on the road for the Western Byways editorial team… For sixty years Fred Robinson’s family has acted as gatekeeper to a hidden underground wonder just north of the town of Shoshone, Idaho. Situated across the highway from a trading post advertising Indian Beads, leathers, kachinas, knives, and (strangely enough) swords,…

  • Internet Blackout… Imagine if it were Permanent! That’s the Threat We Face.

    The basic functions of the internet are under threat with proposed “SOPA/PIPA” legislation, which will change all our lives if it passes.  Wikipedia and other sites are blacked out today in protest–if you run into any of these blackout sites in the course of your day’s use of the internet, imagine what it would be…

  • From Volcanic Hotspots to an Atomic Town

    Third day on the roads of Idaho for the Western Byways Editorial Team (see ‘Western Byways on the Road… Carey, Idaho and Ice Fishing, Hot Springs, and a Duck-Hunting Writer)… Lunchtime…  We’re parked on a dirt road in the narrow plain between the Lost River Range and the White Cloud Range of mountains.  Normally at this time…

  • Ice Fishing, Hot Springs, and a Duck-Hunting Writer…

    Day Two–Western Byways Editorial Team on the Road… By the time we unfolded ourselves from the motor-home’s fold-out bed this morning, the temperature had just pushed into double digits, and I felt intrepid enough to step outside and indulge in my Very Bad Habit…  The foothills beyond the stretch of high-desert prairie were warming in…

  • “Western Byways” on the Road… Carey, Idaho

    The Western Byways editorial staff is on the road for a few days!  The Editor has rented a motor-home, our teeny-tiny Photographer has designated herself Driver (which is kind of like watching a minnow steer a whale shark), my husband is reprising his road-role as The Traveling Chef, and I’ve had my iPad fired up…

  • Reading Review (Idaho Writers series): “Bright’s Passage” by Josh Ritter

    Imagine, for a moment, a musician who’d been named to the list of “100 Greatest Living American Songwriters” before the age of thirty, whose albums are laden with lyrical language and layers of literary and intellectual references…  And imagine that same musician writing two hundred pages of fiction with all the lyrical allure of his…