Although the epic swarms of biting bugs were a distinct disadvantage to horse trekking in the Yukon in July, the summer wildflowers were a plus. I didn’t recognize most of these northerly species, but did know the ubiquitous fireweed. We started out in this cozy, comfortable cabin at Sky High Wilderness Ranch near Whitehorse. It was clean and warm, with
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Kentucky was once the West: the ragged edge of the frontier of European settlement. That distinction passed quickly. Within a few decades, settlers had pushed the Iroquois and Shawnee out of their Kentucky hunting grounds, and the frontier had followed Lewis and Clark (who left on their great western expedition from Louisville, Kentucky on October 6, 1803) across the Mississippi
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Simon on the fence. For most of my life, I’ve been a cat magnet. I haven’t had to look for cats. They’ve come to me. They’ve walked up to the doors of successive student apartments and refused to leave. They’ve followed me into elevators at my office building. They’ve been left behind at houses I’ve moved into. I’ve loved
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