Marlene's This and That

100 Years of Grandeur I had already fallen in love with Montana; Glacier National Park now captured my heart...read more!

She's Having a Baby I am reminded of my husband’s concept that something happens to a girl after giving birth...read more!


Happy Valentine's Day At the moment I opened that box, I felt like a princess in a fairytale...read more!


You Get What You Expect If one imagines with enough energy behind it, expectations eventually manifest...read more!

 
Home Canning For me, home canning means work as it involves a lot of washing and sterilizing of supplies as well as preparing large quantities of produce...read more!


Different, Yet Similar It was a different perspective and a refreshing change from the woman I have considered to be “just a feminist”...read more!


The Benefits of Play Play is good for us and may even increase our longevity. It is an essential factor in our well being...read more!


Just a Housewife My generation had decided it was wiser to get a job, become self-sufficient, and delay childbirth...read more!


Geisha It was really quite fascinating watching her smear rice powder paste around her face,...read more!

These Boots are Made for Walking I hobbled out on the boardwalks to every thermal feature imaginable and can smell the “rotten eggs” of Yellowstone as I write...read more!

Be of Good Cheer Admittedly, I am not the cheerful-type and have been told from little up that I am too serious...read more!

Happy Mother's Day As my dad would say, she only thought of her mother as chief cook and bottle washer...read more!

The Wonder of it All It was May 5, 2000; another one of those doomsday dates when the planets were due to align and produce cataclysmic destruction that would end the world...read more!

It's a Miracle Looking out the window this morning around 7:15, I was still skeptical...read more!


The Game of Life Through LIFE we traveled, collecting paychecks, making loans, having kids, and getting sick...read more!

Division More Fun Than Hiking I was reminded of a comment my daughter M made about her preference to do a page of long division than to take a hike...read more!

Time is on my side...Sometimes, we get stuck in a rut of negative thinking about time...read more!


Cabin Fever The glow of the holidays is over, the valley is socked in with inversions, and we are beginning to drool for spring...read more!


RMKK Year in Review I didn’t get up the nerve to write another article for almost 2 months...read more!


Believing is Seeing I’ve heard it said that to be a dreamer is fruitless...read more!


Forty and Pregnant People called us brave, some thought we were nuts, while others wished they could do the same...read more!


The Otters Return to Glacier She said the bears eyes popped wide as if it was just as surprised as she was...read more!


Black Friday After being bombarded with an After Thanksgiving Day sales blitz, I began visualizing my neighbors bundling up in 20 degree weather to hit the malls at 4 a.m...read more!

A Story Teller As a listener, I was captivated by his ability to put me in their shoes...read more!

Cataracts Suddenly, they heard a shot and then the cries of their mother...read more!


Economy I believe he is but a thoughtful observer contemplating the simplicity of man...read more!


Marlboro Country Cigarette commercials on television are a thing of the past...read more!



Coffee Perks Wearing those creepy gym suits and having to shower at school were two things I didn’t like... read more!


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington With the nomination of the charismatic governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin for VP, there’s been a lot of talk about her qualifications or lack thereof...read more!


Thrifty Having raised nine children through the Depression, it’s understandable she would be practical...read more!


Little Gem in the Woods I learned a long time ago not to give up and to look with eyes wide open...read more!


Connections One thing would lead to another and I found it one of the most compelling ways to learn history...read more!

Missing Hiker, Yi-Jien Hwa, in Glacier National Park Every year we hear stories of lost and injured hikers; mostly tourists who are unprepared for the rugged terrain, or who leave the trail, travel cross country without the proper gear and need to be rescued...read more!


Ten Sixty-Six Later, the events of that terrible battle were briefly explained and noted that Harold had been shot with an arrow in the eye...read more!