Dispatches From Out West

North to St. Gertrude’s: My Next Adventure

May 24, 2023 Teri Murrison

My next adventure: thirty days in the Writers in Residence Program at St. Gertrude’s! I’m looking so forward to it. I’m not Catholic, I am

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Kitteredde: Getting Things Done

May 1, 2023 Teri Murrison

“They pray a lot in this country but nothing ever gets done.” Overheard (and purposely unatttributed) in Entebbe Someone once asked me what I’d like

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Back to Basics: Leaving My Religion, Party

December 31, 2022 Teri Murrison

I realize this is a provocative post. It’s not one I offer lightly but as a way to declare and distance myself from what no longer serves me. And while you may or may not agree or care, I hope it gives you cause for pause.

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Home Is Where I Say It Is: Chasing Rainbows

December 28, 2022 Teri Murrison

Maybe home – where I really belong – is not anywhere I’ve already been. Maybe it’s just a little further on, somewhere over the rainbow. And maybe that’s not wrong.

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The Baby, the Prostitute, and Me: My New Idea of Living

November 17, 2022 Teri Murrison

“Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights: it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the idea of living.” – American historian Miriam Beard

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My Philanthropy: One Things in the Time of Pandemic

August 22, 2022 Teri Murrison

“You’ll never meet anyone who doesn’t know at least one thing you don’t.” Dennis Bowker, 2002

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Goodbye Jake, Goodbye Oak, Goodbye Home

January 14, 2022 Teri Murrison

I’m already feeling the irrevocable loss of this place. Mourning, because I’m making peace with the thought that we’ll never come back. We’ve rehomed the horses (all but Chula – I can’t quite part with her yet), the 4-wheelers, and tractor. The place will be swarming with folks at Saturday’s barn sale enthusiastically giving us pennies on the dollar, helping us deconstruct our life here.

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Idaho’s Blame California Problem

July 15, 2021 Teri Murrison

…Because of fear-mongering and the fact that they aren’t considered legitimate Idahoans by the establishment, their votes go instead to ultra-conservative candidates who recognize their electoral value, aggressively court and whip their votes, and co-opt these recently arrived Californians to Idaho’s detriment…

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Almost There, Home

July 1, 2019 Teri Murrison

It took me back to a time when people cared about each other, when we weren’t so damn mean. To a time when yes meant yes and no meant no. When we felt secure in the world and our place in it. To a time when we didn’t wish everyone would just shut up and leave us alone. When I didn’t wish that.

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Samuel Became King

May 26, 2019 Teri Murrison

The movie Black Beauty opens with the old horse content, lying in a green field and telling a classic tale of loss, sorrow, and redemption. “I remember everything,” Black Beauty says, bringing me to tears. I like to think that King remembers.

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The Owyhee Initiative: Coordination Can End Conflict, Benefit Natural and Human Environments

October 29, 2010 Teri Murrison

In their own words: how former foes came together to end conflict and benefit natural and human environments. Coordination influences federal agency planning and management

SWRCB adopts Delta flow criteria report, spin-cycle continues

August 5, 2010 Teri Murrison

The State Water Resource Control Board (SWRCB) Tuesday adopted a draft flow criteria report, leading some to herald its adoption as comprehensive and long overdue

SPI TO RETOOL STANDARD MILL: 130 JOBS RESTORED!

June 29, 2010 Teri Murrison

How about a little good news for a change? At a press conference this morning, Tuolumne County Economic Development Authority (TCEDA) staff and representatives for SPI

County supervisors to push back

November 24, 2009 Teri Murrison

Read Teri’s commentary for PublicCEO on the decision made at last week’s California State Association of Counties annual conference to actively seek reform of state

Fallen firefighters: we remember and thank them

October 7, 2009 Teri Murrison

A speech given at the Fallen Firefighters’ Memorial Service, Sonora, October 7, 2009. Please note, the unidentified firefighters in the photo are, last I heard,

Remembering… Kennedy Meadows as it Was

October 2, 2007 Teri Murrison

Kennedy Meadows is inextricably part of my backstory. The Professor, my friends, and I have spent many hours riding our horses through the beautiful place

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