by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 19, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Because we like snow, we watched it swirl through the branches of the tree that sits between our house and the pond. My daughter spotted a robin – our first of the year – perched on a branch, proof that winter will yield to spring. It will release its hold on the land...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 27, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
It’s hard to beat the Tetons. They are beautiful. It is easy to see why people would be in a hurry to arrive. Even so, there is beauty in the delay, if only we will slow down long enough to see it. Once, when we had driven up into Yellowstone from the Tetons, we met a...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Feb 11, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
Last summer I met the son of a favorite great-uncle. My whole family was staying at a Minnesota fishing resort and when he came by, I, because I don’t like to meet people, at first let my mom go greet her cousin by herself. Eventually, though, I decided to be a...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 31, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
I made a discovery this morning, the kind of morning that takes place in the middle of the night. The wind from the snow storm woke me up and because it is pointless to live with snow if I am not going to enjoy it, I got up, happy just to be awake while the snow fell....
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 29, 2013 | Pause, Ponder the Path, Press On
I found myself staring at my computer screen, rather shocked at what I had written. What had started out as a simple story about my little girl’s foray into the world with her Pa and how it carried over into our family’s life on the trail had turned, unbidden, into...