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Peggy Wynne Borgman
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May 6, 2020

Bird brains

There is an unmistakable tone to the voice of someone who is about to share what I’ve come to call a “Sad Animal Story”. It’s regretful, a little hushed, and has a certain inexorable quality to it, as if it cannot be helped. “No. Nope. Stop. That’s an SAS, isn’t it?” I’ll warn my husband, as he forgets who he’s talking to and attempts to begin one. I can spot an SAS at twenty paces, often on the first, plaintive, drawn-out syllable.

Wildlife

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Bird brains
Bird brains
Wildlife

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Feb 5, 2020

The secret weapon of Pete’s ground game are Volunteer Virgins like me

At the tender age of 59, I’m a volunteer for a presidential campaign for the first time in my life. It’s changed how I view just about everything about the election. I’m like an awful lot of women in this country. Not just other Democratic women, but like disaffected, demoralized…

Politics

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Volunteer Virgins
Volunteer Virgins
Politics

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Jan 19, 2020

Epitaph for the Vision Board

When I lived in California, on or around New Year’s Day, I often found myself hunched over a large piece of foam core, with a glue stick, a stack of magazines and a pair of scissors, creating a Vision Board. To it I would paste photos of that year’s dreamed-of…

History

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Vision Bored
Vision Bored
History

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Nov 12, 2019

Deerly beloved

The town I live in, just over the mountain from Lake Tahoe, is famous for three things: being the oldest “settlement” in Nevada, the Genoa Bar — a sort of alcoholic Disneyland — and deer. Yes, I know your town probably has deer, too, and they eat your roses. But…

Nature

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Deerly beloved
Deerly beloved
Nature

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Jun 6, 2019

A day at the beach, Nevada style

I lived on California’s Monterey Bay for nearly 40 years, within walking distance to the beach for half of it. When my husband first proposed a move east of the Sierra, I rejected it out of hand. Because…ocean. Nevada doesn’t have one. At least, not right now. But Nevada had…

Beach

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A day at the beach, Nevada style
A day at the beach, Nevada style
Beach

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Mar 28, 2019

Just plane babies

I had to fly this week, after a long hiatus. And something about it felt…weird. On my return from Chicago, I had a layover at LAX (You Can’t Get There from Here is the Reno-Tahoe tagline.) And I finally put my finger on it. I’d voluntarily gotten into yet another…

Travel

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Just plane babies
Just plane babies
Travel

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Mar 9, 2019

Green tea blues

Would it surprise you to learn that green tea is not actually supposed to taste like paint stripper? That it’s not supposed to give you an instant ulcer as acid bores through your stomach lining? …

Tea

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Green tea blues
Green tea blues
Tea

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Feb 19, 2019

Basin and (St)range: why Nevada will never have to “keep” itself weird.

You’ve probably seen a “Keep Austin Weird” t-shirt or bumper sticker — the catchphrase was even appropriated by my former hometown, Santa Cruz, California. While I applaud that noble sentiment, my new home state of Nevada needs no such assistance. …

Nevada

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Why Nevada will never have to “keep” itself Weird.
Why Nevada will never have to “keep” itself Weird.
Nevada

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Jan 2, 2019

Winter blunderland

On a sunny March afternoon last year, I took my 20-year-old niece Francesca for a little Nordic ski outing south of Lake Tahoe. Fran had never before put on a pair of skis, cross-country or otherwise, but she took to it like a duck to (frozen) water. “How often do…

Skiing

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Winter blunderland
Winter blunderland
Skiing

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Dec 2, 2018

How a group of male Nevada lawmakers accidentally liberated American women

Imagine that it’s 1931 and you’re an American woman married to a cheating bastard. (Go ahead, I’ll wait. This may be easier for some of you than others.) Let’s say you want to leave Mr. Screwmore. But this is the 1930s. …

Reno

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A group of male lawmakers in Nevada accidentally liberated American women in 1931
A group of male lawmakers in Nevada accidentally liberated American women in 1931
Reno

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Free-range author and artist from Northern Nevada

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