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  • Following Dad down the road

    Following Dad down the road

    The author reminisces on an itinerant childhood and her family's travels up, down and across the country -- and how she now clings firmly to one place called home.

    by Diane Sylvain, Jul 19, 2012
  • The light is changing... summer is ending

    The light is changing... summer is ending

    Suddenly summer is almost over, and autumn is almost beginning.

    by Diane Sylvain, Aug 29, 2011
  • The trouble with guns

    The trouble with guns

    Maybe it's true that guns don't kill people, but people using guns can sure do damage.

    by Diane Sylvain, Jan 18, 2011
  • Poetry in motion

    Poetry in motion

    That odd-looking woman on the sidewalk ahead of you is not just talking to herself; she's trying -- loudly -- to memorize a poem.

    by Diane Sylvain, Dec 05, 2010
  • I think we're all anchor babies on this bus

    I think we're all anchor babies on this bus

    If we're no longer considered U.S. citizens by birthright, then how do we know we're citizens at all?

    by Diane Sylvain, Sep 13, 2010
  • Welcome, new interns!

    Welcome, new interns!

    High Country News welcomes three new interns and several visitors and wins a couple of important prizes.

    by Cally Carswell, Ariana Brocious, Arla Shephard & Diane Sylvain, Jul 24, 2009
  • Visitors from underground

    Visitors from underground

    Spelunkers visit High Country News; correction; obituaries for N.W. Grosse-Rhode and Ramon Mena Owens.

    by Sarah Gilman, Diane Sylvain and Jodi Peterson, Jun 16, 2009

  • Essay: Surviving a friend's suicide

    We are sewn into each other’s lives like pieces in a quilt

    by Diane Sylvain, Mar 27, 2008

  • The memory of a mountain

    Diane Sylvain remembers climbing Pikes Peak with her mother, back when her mother still knew what a mountain was.

    by Diane Sylvain, Jul 17, 2007

  • The memory of mountains

    The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter.

    by Diane Sylvain, Sep 18, 2006

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