by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 14, 2026 | Yellowstone Stories
Once upon a time, I worked in Yellowstone—at the Old Faithful Inn Gift Shop, where I spent part of each day restoring the great wall of postcards. These days, the postcard wall is smaller, which makes me sad. Postcards are more than souvenirs. They’re a way of looking...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 6, 2026 | Yellowstone Stories
Postcards. They’re more than a souvenir. More than a way to say Thinking of you! or Wish you were here! They’re a way of seeing and sharing. Small by design, a postcard from Yellowstone can capture a moment. In that spirit, for you: A postcard from...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Dec 6, 2025 | Yellowstone Stories
I have a love-hate relationship with paper. I’ve never met a notebook, or a post-it note, or a planner I didn’t like. At the same time, I have no idea how to manage the mountains of paper that find their way into my home. Because my husband is efficient,...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Nov 26, 2025 | Yellowstone Stories
It’s that time of year. We’re searching for ideas for that special something for that special someone. Last year, one of my author-friends asked me to pair my book with a gift idea for her readers. This year, I asked some of my nature-writing friends to do...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Nov 6, 2025 | Yellowstone Stories
Once upon a time, I worked in Yellowstone National Park. It was 1987–just shy of forty years ago. Numbers are not my first language, so this is always something of a shock. I digress. Specifically, I worked at the Old Faithful Inn Gift Shop, where I invested a...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Oct 22, 2025 | Yellowstone Stories
Going Down I’m not sure I’d even heard of Seven Mile Hole, a challenging trail into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, until I was in my thirties—a decade when I was still a reluctant hiker, a very reluctant hiker. By my mid-forties, I had developed an...