Count Me as One Earnest 2024 Human
What started as a task to write about technology and life in the rural west has morphed into a mandate, self-imposed, to take back my brain from tech-soaked deviations. You could say the topic got the better of me. I’m guessing it’s got the better […]
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Dating in the Rural West
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in the Washington Post. For those of you hitting a paywall, here you go! Maddy Butcher is the author of “Horse Head: Brain Science & Other Insights” and director of Buck the Trend, a mental health forum for […]
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Playing Checkers
Editor’s Note: This is an unedited version of Maddy Butcher’s opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post. Maddy Butcher writes: There was a whole lot of hootin’ and hollerin’ when, earlier this summer, the judge at the federal district court in Casper, Wyoming, ruled […]
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ADDITIONAL POSTS
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Mind Yer Spring Step
Editor's Note: Colorado Parks and Wildlife sent out this notice and we're passing it along as a general Hippocratic Oath for outdoorists everywhere. Be a...
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This Ain’t Disney
Editor's Note: This is an unedited version of a piece written about horse slaughter, animal rights activists, and rural, agrarian life. An edited and alternate...
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All Death is Not Bad
Editor's Note: This opinion piece was originally published in the Washington Post and is republished here. I am throwing in some pretty random pics. Sorry...
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E-Bikes and Othering
Editor’s Note: This piece was published in the Washington Post. But here it is for those of us hitting the paywall. By Maddy Butcher Who...
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Othering in the Outdoors
Editor's Note: This essay in an alternative to a piece written by Maddy Butcher in the Washington Post. In the video, a mountain biker confronts...
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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...
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