by Natalie Ogbourne | Sep 15, 2022 | Yellowstone Stories
Summer’s green is wearing thin. Before long, it will give way to the colors of autumn. Between the arrival of unrelenting heat and a steady green march across the lawn, some years it seems we go straight from winter to summer without stopping for spring. This doesn’t...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Aug 3, 2022 | Yellowstone Stories
For more years than I care to admit, July 1 has settled in with a heavy sense of loss. Summer, I believed, was almost over. This is as unhelpful as it is untrue. How can a season that was born just days before be nearly at its end? Maturity is teaching me to take on...
by Natalie Ogbourne | May 18, 2022 | Yellowstone Stories
One practice I use to keep me oriented to the features of the landscape of my life is to list the season’s gifts and graces. It’s a simple way to fix my eyes on the good so I can do my part to foster a hopeful perspective and healthy mindset. The list is...
by Natalie Ogbourne | May 1, 2022 | Yellowstone Stories
“This way, Babe.” Late the night before, my husband, J, and I had checked into a hotel in Nebraska. Now it was morning, time to resume our road trip. I stepped out of our room and turned to the right, which, apparently, was wrong. “Really?” I asked. I was sure this...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Mar 30, 2022 | Yellowstone Stories
“It’s easier if you walk along the edge,” my husband said. We were taking on unfamiliar terrain. I knew how to hike the packed dirt trails in the midwest and the mountains. But in Utah’s high desert where my KEENS tossed up a spray of sand with every step? Not so...
by Natalie Ogbourne | Jan 31, 2022 | Yellowstone Stories
Of the practices I use to foster a hopeful perspective and healthy mindset, keeping a list of the season’s gifts and graces is the simplest. Somewhere along the line, I started rearranging it into a bell shape and now I can’t really stop. This...