Essays

UPDATE: Don is busy writing the biography of U.S. Senator Al Simpson (retired), so we thought you might like to take a look at a few Simpson photos. This is our only photo essay. Click on the Simpson button.

It is painful to lose a true friend. Here is Don's tribute to “Dick Frech.”

The hardest part of a major adventure can be the first step. In our first essay, Don shares his thoughts on finally “Leaving DC.”

Here is a silly letter to help you locate Wyoming's only mobile town, “Flotsam.”

We have a few thoughts about taking chances in life. Read about Freedom.

Mother Nature was hard at work the day she transformed her world into a magical and yet frightening place made of “Ice.”

Our life on the road is not a vacation, and things happen that wouldn’t occur, lacking the time to make careful observations. “Jenny” is a story of one special night at the base of Wyoming’s mighty Teton Mountains.

Sometimes fascinating places are in one’s own back yard. These are Don’s observations about “The Ranch.””

Enter the fascinating world of a unique man with a common name: “Tom Brown.”

Everyone should try camping in the desert as far from civilization as possible. Something very magical might happen late at night under a brilliant canopy of Starlight.

Did you ever wonder, if given a second chance, whether you would live your life the same? Your answers may be in the “Wake of the Wind.”

Becky has an entry here: the text of her well-received speech to the faculty and incoming Freshman class at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.