Lisa Hutchins
- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
Media Review: Catch-22
In 1971 when I was sixteen, my parents divorced. My brother and I lived with my mother, but on weekends we saw my father for a few...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
Hurricane Ian? No, Donna.
Path of Hurricane Donna In 1960, when I was five years old (yes, boys and girls, just after the age of the dinosaurs), my family rode out...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
Why Do So Many Native Grasses Have that Strange "Muhly" Name?
Portrait of supreme grass expert, Gotthilf Muhlenberg Living in the American West, you soon realize that a large number of native...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Fall Proceeds Apace
Wistful seeing the last of summer's hummingbirds on the tattered remains of wild monarda in our rain garden (Monarda fistulosa, also...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Nov 13, 2016
- 2 min
A Tale of a Shrew
We found a shrew in our garage mousetrap. We didn't even know we had shrews in our area, much less that they would come into the garage,...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Nov 4, 2016
- 3 min
The Magnificent Heap
Having a fondness for both Buddhism and shamanism, I've set up a Mongolian ovoo on the slope behind our house. The ovoo (pronounced...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Sep 15, 2016
- 3 min
Goodbye to a Dear Friend
Photo of Cody by Lisa Hutchins Today we said goodbye to dear Cody. He was one of my rescued (some people call them retired)...
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Lisa Hutchins
- May 14, 2016
- 2 min
Narrowleaf Cottonwood: Aspen's Unlovely Cousin
When we first moved here, we were initially elated and then dismayed at a grove of trees on our property. We had hoped they were quaking...
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Lisa Hutchins
- Dec 18, 2015
- 3 min
Media Review: Groundhog Day as Spiritual Teaching
The great religions scholar Huston Smith once wrote of Hinduism: "If pleasure is what you want, do not suppress desire. Seek it...
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