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The Cold Doesn’t Bother Us Anyway
In the iconic scene from the movie Frozen, Elsa stares boldly into the camera from the doorway of her freshly-constructed ice castle. She is fleeing from the trauma of her childhood to live out a life of happy isolation in the snow. “The cold doesn’t bother me anyway!” she sings jubilantly. In Wyoming, Tyler and I were also singing, “The cold doesn’t bother us anyway!” But unlike Elsa, we were singing with heated socks, heated gloves, and heavy overalls. Hey, not everyone c

Grace Slaven
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Small Town
Do you have a favorite place to be? Maybe it’s that coffee shop where they make your latte just right. Maybe it’s a book store or a...

Grace Slaven
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“Bearly” Made It
A chorus of coyote song wavered across the prairie. Snowy mountain peaks glowed pink in the sunrise. Sage grouse puffed out their chests...

Grace Slaven
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You Only Live Once
Usually YOLO (“you only live once”) is reserved as a declarative statement made right before somebody does something stupid. In the most...

Grace Slaven
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The World is a Beautiful Place
Sometimes you have a day that’s challenging but unequivocally perfect. This was one of those days. It was messy at parts. Downright...

Grace Slaven
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We Aren’t in Utah Anymore, Toto
It was our first wedding anniversary. A year ago, we were off on a sunshiny desert honeymoon in the American Southwest. It couldn’t have...

Grace Slaven
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