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The cold, hard West

January 26, 2023 by Dave Knadler 1 Comment

annie proulx short stories in "Fine Just the Way It Is"

Who’s the most famous writer you’ve never read? I can think of a few offhand, but now I can cross one off the list: Annie Proulx. A good friend sent me a book of her short stories the other day: “Fine Just the Way it Is.”  I’m about halfway through it. I love that […]

Filed Under: Books, montana, Movies, short stories, writers, Writing

This could be
the last time

March 10, 2022 by Dave Knadler

You always know when you’re experiencing something for the first time. But you can never be sure when it’s the last. After a certain age, most things take on an elegiac cast. Only later can you look back and recognize a final moment for what it was. And you always wish you’d paid more […]

Filed Under: american life, Me, montana, Writing

When beggars are choosers

July 21, 2013 by Dave Knadler

missoula beggars

I walk a lot, so I encounter a fair number of beggars. I used to think Jacksonville, Fla., was bad in that respect. There, it’s a rare stroll where I don’t get accosted at least once. But Missoula takes it to a whole other level. This time of year, you can’t go a single […]

Filed Under: american life, montana

Doing a marathon the easy way

July 14, 2013 by Dave Knadler

Today we went out early to watch the Missoula Marathon. Tess, who has run a couple of half-marathons herself, takes great joy in cheering on the runners. I do too, although I take special interest in people who look as if they have no business on the course: the overweight, the elderly, the very […]

Filed Under: Me, montana

The girls with their summer pom poms

July 12, 2013 by Dave Knadler

This morning we were out walking past the University of Montana and came upon a large group of pretty girls practicing cheerleading moves. The amplified voice of the instructor, also a pretty girl, carried across the open lawn: “One, two, three and four; five six seven eight… don’t flex your hands.” The girls moved […]

Filed Under: american life, Me, montana

A poseur in the Capitol of Cool

July 11, 2013 by Dave Knadler

We have arrived in Missoula, Mont., after trekking 2,600 miles or so across this great nation of ours in a red Nissan Altima. The car is slightly worse for the wear; yesterday a chunk of wood detached itself from a logging truck on I-90 and knocked out the passenger-side mirror. So at least part […]

Filed Under: montana, road trip

Congratulations, Jim. You’re still famous

January 31, 2013 by Dave Knadler

I don’t know which surprises me more: That legendary actor Jim Nabors has married a man, or that he his, in fact, still alive. Seriously. I was under the impression that he had died four years ago. About the same time Abe Vigoda passed on. And now it appears Vigoda is still alive too. […]

Filed Under: american life, montana

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