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If you’ve read my articles over the past 20 years, you know I love to tell anyone who will listen my great-grandparents moved to Powell Butte in 1917, my Irish cousins started the D and D bar in the 1940s, and I survived the halls of Crook County High School in the 1980s. People always […]
If you’ve read my articles over the past 20 years, you know I love to tell anyone who will listen my great-grandparents moved to Powell Butte in 1917, my Irish cousins started the D and D bar in the 1930s, and I survived the halls of Crook County High School in the 1980s. People always […]
If you’ve read my articles over the past 20 years, you know I love to tell anyone who will listen my great-grandparents moved to Powell Butte in 1917, my Irish cousins started the D and D bar in the 1930s, and I survived the halls of Crook County High School in the 1980s. People always […]
When quarantine sent us all home last year, my husband Ian and I decided our one outing each week would be Friday night dinner at Dandy’s Drive-In. Ian grew up in Sisters and I’m from Prineville and Dandy’s is our 1970s comfort food. It’s also the perfect spot during a global pandemic because you’re in […]
In 1917, my great-grandfather, John Cronin, moved to Powell Butte, a small farming community east of Bend. He was born and raised in Ireland and came to Oregon in search of adventure and opportunity. He found it in a sheep ranch. A decade later, his nephews John and Matt Daly followed him to Central Oregon. […]
My first summer road trip as an adult of drinking age was to the San Juan Islands in Washington. At the time, I was living in Seattle. Kurt Cobain had just died. As a rule, road trips are about the journey. My BFFs Molly (Juliette Lewis), Char (Winona Ryder) and I (a young Bette Midler) […]
The one thing that sets rodeo queens apart from other pageant queens is they have to ride a horse. At breakneck speed. Around an arena full of people. A bunch of times per night. All summer long. They start with a Queen's Run at the beginning of each rodeo where they are joined by visiting […]
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