There's an area of the United States that has played a unique role in enabling the use of modern technology across North America, attracting workers from around the world and creating unparalleled wealth for entrepreneurs. I'm taking about Butte, Montana, of course, "The Richest Hill On Earth." The discovery of

Living in Montana, especially at higher elevations, means never being certain what the weather might do. The forecast can change by the hour, and today was a good example of that. I took Nancy for a walk this morning and it was a pleasant winter day: no precipitation, partly cloudy,

A coworker once mentioned – twenty years ago in Spokane, the biggest small town in Eastern Washington – that he'd noticed me driving eastbound on I-90 while he was driving westbound over the weekend. He wondered if I'd gone for a hike in Idaho. I was flabbergasted. How could you "notice" a

On the morning of Saturday April 4, in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic and nationwide lockdown, we found ourselves driving away from our Seattle home with a truckload of possessions and our three dogs and a cat, headed for a new home in Montana. Our friends and family may