To Not Comment
Editor’s Note: This piece, edited and trimmed for length, was published in the Washington Post. But here it is for those of us hitting a paywall and to consider the unedited version. By Maddy Butcher Halfway through a 20-mile ride, I choose to expound confidently […]
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No Solace in Open Space
Editor’s Note: This is a free, paywall-avoidant version of the Washington Post opinion piece that Maddy Butcher wrote recently. Read the WaPo piece. In “The Homesman,” a 2014 movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, three traumatized pioneer women are transported back East to […]
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Cowboying as the Antithesis of Yellowstone
Editor’s Note: An edited version of this essay appeared in the Washington Post. Read below for an alternate and expanded piece. By Maddy Butcher Yellowstone’s fourth season opens with livestock agent Kayce Dutton in a shootout. This is silly, of course. But as it happens, […]
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Climbers Need Hokas
Editor's Note: Dillon Robertson is an avid climber, runner, and outdoorsman. He's former Peace Corps volunteer who spent years in a remote village in Panama...
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Wolves and Coexistence
A note from Maddy: It's always interesting to work with editors and for a platform which are well outside my usual quiet vacuum of independent...
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What does it mean “To Listen”?
Editor's Note: This post was part of the Lightswitch project at KSJD, kindly motivated by Tom Yoder and edited by Penny Holiday. Listen to it...
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Abandoned Horses Rescued from Perilous Backcountry Fate
Editor's Note: This article appears in the Colorado Sun. All photos by Clay Tillia. By Maddy Butcher While many were ringing in the New Year,...
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JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out
Editor's Note: The following essay appeared in the Washington Post. This is an expanded, unwashed-by-editors version. Read the WaPo piece here. Maddy Butcher writes: Thanks...
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The Wanigan and What We Carry
Editor's Note: A version of this essay was published in the Washington Post. Maddy Butcher writes: Few friends aren’t going through something now. It might...
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