savagemama: Missoula, she’s my homegirl
13 Aug
What was that Steinbeck quote?
“I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.”
I used to have this quote thumb-tacked to my dorm room wall in South Carolina after I’d lived in Montana and wanted desperately to come back.
And it’s still true. I am in love.
And, yes, it’s hard to analyze it when you’re in it.
But let’s try.
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I am a freelance writer living at the base of the Mission Mountains in Arlee, Montana with my husband and two daughters. I write about them, growing up Southern, occasionally posing in my underwear and my love of the IRS form 1040, among other things. I write mostly nonfiction including essays and a weekly column for 



