We stepped through the door of the stone Glenfarclas warehouse into a gust of whisky-scented air. They call it the angel’s share—the portion of whisky that evaporates from its cask into the atmosphere. I filled my enraptured nose and listened for a rustling of wings in the rafters. Later, around the distillery’s tasting table with […]
Locals call them “speed goats.” Now you see them, now you don’t. In a minute, they can be a mile gone. Pronghorns are the fastest land mammals in North America, capable of impressive speed and endurance. They can sprint away from predators at 60 miles per hour, and keep running for miles at speeds of […]
My husband and I met in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the 1980s—a spectacular place to have landed between college and career. We were there at a time when one job and one roommate was all twenty-somethings needed in order to live well (now it’s two and three respectively), and life was fun and carefree. “Off […]