Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com “Wish I’d lived 100 years ago,” I used to say. Until I hit my fifties, that is, when it became “Wish I’d lived 150 years ago.” Despite being a Net junkie, […]
by Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com “How do you pick a football team to root for?” I naively asked a roomful of sports-fan friends years ago. “Mostly, it’s wherever you grew up,” said the Broncos fans. […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com Sometimes I just can’t help being a mom. Even though my kids are grown, I still worry. “Got your ‘go bag’ ready?” I asked my son, oh so casually, when he […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com We’re almost at my favorite day of the year! No, not Christmas, although I do love Christmas. So much so, that some friends tend to greet me with muttered grrrs when I […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com Right outside the window where I sit to work every morning is a super-duper birdfeeder. No, it’s not a hundred-dollar sweet wooden gazebo model. Not even a $10 tube feeder. It cost […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com “She can bake a cherry pie, in the twinkling of an eye”—that was my mother, 60 years ago. She’d take the sour cherries I’d picked from our own tree (Pennsylvania, not Colorado), […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com I used to think I knew robins. Doesn’t everybody? Beloved sign of spring, hop about on our lawns, eat worms, raise babies right in our yards or even in the wreath on […]
Matt Bartmann mbartmann@northfortynews.com “Suddenly, a loud, frantic quacking came from the other side of the lake.” Josh Traver was working in his first year as a wildlife rehabilitator when a call came in from the […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com I can always tell when I’ve been whining too much about the weather at our place in the high foothills. That’s when a friend from the lowlands reins me in with the […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com No matter what the weather happens to be around Valentine’s Day, love is in the air. Just listen, and you’ll hear it. Step outside at night to catch the deep bass notes […]
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