Edith Cook
Casper Star-Tribune
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Cook: Discrimination leaves bitter legacy
“There are things more important than borders drawn by conquerors and politicians,” Jack Pugh comments in regard to immigration. “There are things more important than the racism and economics and → Read More
Cook: Helping young people to a fresh start
In a few months Carol Pascal’s family will be celebrating 100 years of residing in Cheyenne. “My grandparents left Chihuahua at the height of the Mexican Revolution,” she said. “They → Read More
Cook: Larry's Place needs community attention
Ten years ago in Cheyenne, Joan Schwab and her husband dedicated themselves to aiding people who, after serving a prison sentence, have nowhere to go. When, six years ago, husband → Read More
Cook: Grateful for my late-in-life bounty
“This has got to be the windiest place in Wyoming,” visitors comment as they arrive at my doorstep. → Read More
Cook: Trump phenomenon is frightening
I spoke German before I spoke English. Does that make German superior to English? Also, I was raised Christian. Does this mean Christianity surpasses Islam or Buddhism? Donald Trump seems → Read More
Cook: Ruminating on the hereafter
Cultural and religious judgments are against the principles of the Unitarian Universalist Church, where I found a home when I moved to Cheyenne. → Read More
Cook: Many immigrant children carry terrible burden
The immigrant experience has been on my mind lately, my own and others’, and its effects on our offspring. Children of immigrants are subject to conflicting messages. Both parents and → Read More
Cook: Seeing ourselves in new light
A Mother’s Day surprise arrived by way of a dozen roses, given by brothers who are my temporary lodgers. The two are under a month’s contract at the Laramie Power → Read More
Cook: Good leaders keep an open mind
Most people strive to be competent in life – as parent, teacher, spouse, supervisor. To this end, some of us periodically ask ourselves: How is my perspective-taking? And, equally important: → Read More
Cook: A few instances of kindness before our time is up
Whenever I travel, be it flying to family in Germany or driving to California for grandparent duty, I am overcome with dread. I look around my home and wonder whether → Read More
Cook: CWD alliance reminds us that ecology is fragile
Hikers, hunters, and anglers love Wyoming for its public places. From easy-to-access paths to remote mountains or streams, we choose where to practice our favorite outdoor sports. → Read More
Cook: Looking for details on dark energy
StarDate is a favorite radio program of mine. Narrated by Sandy Wood, the daily show began in 1978, making it the longest-running radio science feature in the country. Its Spanish-language → Read More
Cook: Big Bend a beautiful national park
Barely a week in Texas, and already a neighbor bends my ear on the “must-see” places of his home state. One is his studio with its many paintings. Another is → Read More
Cook: Another one from Texas
Texas politics are “much more manipulative than Wyoming’s,” my son recently opined. I thought that was saying a lot, though he should know. In an earlier career Walter headed the → Read More
Cook: How to nix asset forfeiture law?
As a Wyoming snowbird wintering in Texas with dog Abby, periodically I pick up my granddaughter after school to take her to a math learning center. On the way we → Read More
Cook: Asset forfeiture is unjust, unreasonable
The evils of asset forfeiture are mounting. In the current session of the Wyoming legislature, this unjust and unreasonable practice is once again the subject of a bill, HB 14, → Read More
Cook: Drug prohibition doesn't reduce use, abuse
Before he retired and moved to Utah with his family, Dave Doddridge worked in the criminal service division of the Los Angeles Police Department for 21 years. Once settled in → Read More
Cook: Finding answers to origin questions
Where did we come from? What are we doing here? Where are we going? The French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) affixed these questions to one of his paintings. → Read More
Cook: Abby, a girl's best friend
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” sang Marilyn Monroe in true gangster-moll fashion. The idea may hold for the fakery of silver screen, but in real life? I am here → Read More
Cook: Volcanic eruptions can be frightening, deadly
When I took a Chinese friend to Yellowstone National Park, she was agog over its many geysers, mud pots and hot springs. The geysers, she said, reminded her of the → Read More