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Polebridge, MT: The Bare Necessities

Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife; I mean the bare […]

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The Home of My Heart

“Home is where the heart is.” It’s such a well-worn expression we hardly think of what it means anymore. Some say that Pliny the Elder was the first to utter these words nearly 2,000 years ago, and that when he did he said “hearth,” not “heart.” But no matter. The two are one in the […]

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The Birds

It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks ago was not the one we came back to. It had been transmogrified into a Hitchcock movie set. We stood by the Expedition, suitcases in hand, and watched as a squadron of swallows circled overhead, […]

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