by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 21, 2015 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Two Septembers ago my family spent a few weeks in South Dakota. It wasn’t a vacation; it was a working trip. My husband tucked us away in the hills and commuted every morning into Rapid City. The kids and I did schoolwork and read and whiled away the remains of...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 13, 2015 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
The littlest things make a difference, little things such as bits of scarlet in a tangle of brown on a winter’s day. It’s often true, what Blaise Pascal wrote: A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. A little thing can make all the...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 6, 2015 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
On December 12 the National Park Service posted a news release to inform the public that Yellowstone’s interior roads would open on December 15, just as predicted. Yellowstone’s fall and winter travelers knew when the road crews would start to let the snow...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 16, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
The year I got married, my husband’s mom told me she’d read that the Christmas season brings thirty-nine additional items to a woman’s already overflowing to-do list. At the time I thought the number seemed a wee bit overstated but with age and experience, I’ve...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 2, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Fall is days from turning in its papers for the year but between the early sticking snows and arctic blast I nearly missed it. And not only its existence–I almost missed its gifts. Fall is my favorite season but it just didn’t look like its typical self...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Nov 18, 2014 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Once in a while, we encounter the remains of a colossal tree on the trail. Sometimes we find an immense trunk laying on the ground rather than stretched to the sky. Usually, though, it’s a remnant of a root system tipped into the air that gets our attention. We...