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2017 has arrived

Posted by Edith Cook on Monday, January 9, 2017, In : Personal 
Happy New Year, Dear Readers!

for most of 2016, I was unable to access this page. Now that the difficulties have been cleared, I want to mention that I currently winter in Southeast Texas--you'll see some pictures soon. Fo now, here is a snapshot of the hunters in my family: Walter, my oldest (second from left) and Frank, my middle son (first on left) with Frank's two sons, Brett (to the right of Walt) and Colton (first on the right). Frank and family (spouse not shown) visited Walter and fami...
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On the road but wrapping things up

Posted by Edith Cook on Sunday, October 2, 2016, In : Personal 
Edith and I are wrapping up our tour of Utah and Arizona. Besides the national parks, our travel led us to the family histories we uncovered in our talks while driving. Food for thought and further writing. By the way, one of my personal essays, "Windy Acres," is slated to appear in a forthcoming anthology of Wyoming writers, titled Blood, Water, Wind, and Stone. Our editor is arranging "gala events" of readings and appearances in a number of Wyoming locales. More on that later.  


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Getting Squeezed

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, July 2, 2016, In : Reading Life 
As you know, I write a weekly column that appears in the two large Wyoming newspapers, the WTE and the CST., and I post these on this website after they have appeared in print. A few months ago,when the WTE along with several smaller Wyoming newspapers, was acquired by APG Media of the Rockies, all local columnists were informed we would no longer be paid for our services. What a way to increase CEO pay! They do, however, continue to pay national columnists, some of whom are no better at writ...
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March inWyoming

Posted by Edith Cook on Monday, April 4, 2016, In : Personal 
Looking out from my front window
  

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Sneak Preview

Posted by Edith Cook on Sunday, November 1, 2015, In : Reading Life 
As promised, a sneak preview of the column I submitted  to the editors of Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Casper Star Tribune for this week's publication, likely for Saturday, Nov. 7, 2014. The essay is something of a mixed bag--let's see what headlines the respective editors devise.


Driving down the road many years ago, I heard a song on the radio so arresting, I pulled over to give it my full attention. It was Roberta Flack, performing her composition, “The First Time Ever,” a paean to...


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Vacationing

Posted by Edith Cook on Wednesday, February 18, 2015, In : Personal 
For the past three weeks I have vacationed in Texas, residing with my son and family. The idea was to escape the Wyoming cold. Ironically, the month of February has been exceptionally warm in Cheyenne. Perhaps this is part of the overall pattern of climate change. Whatever the case may be, I'm sure to get hit with a snowstorm the moment I return. For now, however, I'm enjoying a balmy climate, though the last few nights have brought freezing temps even here.

 Soon after I left to head back to ...
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Column Writing

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, June 28, 2014, In : Writing 
Lately the editors of the Casper Star Tribune have been running my columns, even the ones on the perils of climate change. I wonder why this is? Has the editorial board decided it's time to counter the denialists? Or is it due to a change in the Op ED editor? The column that appeared in the WTE on June 19 under "Keep open mind on climate" appeared in the Casper paper on June 21 under "Consider climate change evidence." The former is displayed on this site's WTE page.                          ...
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#NoKXL

Posted by Edith Cook on Sunday, April 27, 2014, In : Reading Life 
We did it! On Friday, April 26, 2014, I initiated a demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline, having been trained as action lead by one of the opposing organizations, NoKXL. That week, it happened, 350.org sponsored a massive action in Washington D.C., of the Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group that camped out, complete with tipis and horses, in a park near the White House. 

Because the project crosses international borders, President Obama must decide wether or not to approve the pipeline. ...
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December in Wyoming, 2013

Posted by Edith Cook on Wednesday, December 18, 2013, In : Personal 

I don't send out greeting cards annually, but this time I decided to do so. Here is a pic I sent with each card. I also requested a photo of myself with Walt's family, since they are set to leave Wyoming in a few months. Two days ago, atWalt's birthday party, we played guitar and sang songs, most of them not Christmasy but the cowboy and bar songs Walt likes. I played a bit of classical guitar in between. I hope we inspired Amanda, who is becoming self-conscious, turning reluctant to sing tho...
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Paper read at EPA Haze Rule Hearing, July 17, 2013, in Cheyenne

Posted by Edith Cook on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Reading Life 

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Cows Gone

Posted by Edith Cook on Thursday, February 21, 2013, In : Reading Life 
As of February 20, the cows are gone. All of them. Walter says he's "out of the cow business." I know it saddens him, though he doesn't say much about it. As for his younger brother, who had entered the venture with him--who knows? The fact is, neither Walter's pasture nor my wheat field can sustain the herd, and the hay Walt bought in the fall is all eaten up.

My wheat production, too, is on the brink of collapse. Walt and I are but two of many ranchers and farmers in Wyoming--actually, in th...
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My once and only wheat farm

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, January 19, 2013, In : Reading Life 
  When I moved to Wyoming to retire and help look after my granddaughter, I invested my assets in a wheat farm.  At the time, it seemed a good thing. Wall Street had acquired a bad name. To grow wheat was a safer bet, surely, than going with a wildly fluctuating stock market? 

That was seven years ago. Today I know there is no such thing as safety, particularly when it comes to food. As Frederick Kaufman shows, famine is spreading in spite of redoubled effort to get food and money to the hungr...
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California Visit

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, December 24, 2011, In : Reading Life 
 It's mid-December and I once again find myself in the East Bay of California. This time of year people wear shorts and shirt-sleeves; they take their children to playgrounds after school even at four PM, which I do with my grandson today. They ride bikes; they stroll through vineyards. Back in Wyoming a storm dumps snow that turns to ice on the sidewalks; here, we enjoy balmy weather. My grandson and I put a pant into the ground before his father and I went to Farmer's Market where even now ...
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German versus Wyoming Recycling

Posted by Edith Cook on Sunday, December 4, 2011, In : Reading Life 

Recycling has been on my mind since last time my cousin (pictured above with her mother, now deceased) visited from Germany. She commented on what seemed to her an appalling American wastefulness, an obliviousness to the need to conserve resources, as if unaware—or unwilling to acknowledge—that resources are finite. Even human-made resources like plastics won’t be with us forever, since plastics are made from petroleum, and there’s only so much recoverable petroleum left in the earth....


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The Future is Here

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, August 13, 2011, In : Reading Life 

 

To the newcomer, Wyoming is the location of a mindless if relentless “Drill, Baby, Drill”(gas and oil) and ”Dig, Baby, Dig” (coal). “Plans in works for 4,200 new gas wells in Wyoming,” proclaims an August 2011 newspaper headline. Yes, that’s four thousand two hundred deep-gas wells. The Nirobrara shale-oil exploration, the upstart from the previous year. is proceeding at a pace. Like deep-well gas extraction, it, too relies on hydraulic fracturing. “1.2 million gallons: App...


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About Me


Edith Cook Though I now live in Wyoming, I make frequent return trips to California with visits to travel club members along the way. At home I play classical guitar, enjoy gardening and cooking, and participate in group yoga. Getting together with family and friends is high on my agenda. I value people who write or make music and love it when my adult children and their offspring play their instruments, sing songs with me, or discuss what they read and write. Such gatherings help me cope with the losses in my life, which have been severe. Next year I hope to visit family in Germany.

 

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