Picaresque

Picaresque is the adjective to describe writings about a common or low character who survives the pitfalls of life through luck or good fortune. My travels, interests, my animals, my photographs, my wonderful friends and family are featured.

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Location: Arapahoe, Wyoming, United States

(Note: Blogs read from bottom to top; scroll down for beginnings, scroll up for most current.) After 30 years in public administration and four degrees, as well as numerous workshops with luminaries in Education and Public Policy, life in a slower lane became a goal. Most recently I have done policy writing and consulting for the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Tribes. Mostly, I am just coasting slowly and gently downhill these days-seeking joy where I can find it before the glorious ride ends.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

You Know You Are Back in Wyoming When...

You know you are back in Wyoming when:
  • You go to visit the neighbors and they aren't home but their door is wide open.
  • When you go to visit your other neighbors and nobody is there but before you leave, family members from a combined distance of 170 miles converge to admire progress on a new house.
  • You go back to the other neighbors and they are home, with company, and they insist you stay for dinner.
  • Somebody at the dinner table says "Those darn sheep are getting out again!"and people arise en-masse, take three vehicles, and with a combined experience of over 300 years you end up weaving sagebrush in barbed wire to foil the wily critters.
  • When your new wireless modem upgrade arrives and they tell you you have to drive 120 miles to get to a place it will program itself, and you do it without delay.
  • You laugh a lot at how nuts things are.
  • The Fed Ex man- fellow dog lover, has become your friend, stoops to return a quarter on the door step and you say, "Leave it. I am field testing the Jehovah's." and you both have a good laugh.
  • You step out the door and and can hear calls of Sandhill Cranes, Ringneck pheasants, and the new resident squirrel doesn't budge.
  • The air is so clean but it is moving horizontally fast enough you have to run to catch a breath.