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one life
Betty J. (Drevo) Buck took her final curtain call and walked into the golden sunset at sunrise on December 17, 2024. An eternal optimist, she squeezed the nectar from the fruit of every single second of every single minute of every single hour of every single day. She had a light. It glowed. From within. It was vibrant and curious and magnetic. To her daughters, it could be a little embarrassing, especially when they were growing up. Over the past 18 years, since her first an

Deanne Buck
3 min read


Good trouble
On February 23, 2023 at 12:23 pm, I said goodbye to my partner in crime (literally:). Ahhhh, I so loved Ali. When I needed it most, he would mosey to my room and lumber up on my bed, one paw at a time. He would turn around a few times, promptly lay down horizontally or diagonally (note, not vertical so that we could "share" the bed) and start snoring. You see, at 110lbs, the dog took up some SPACE. He was a lover of children and children loved him. He was an escape artist. He

Deanne Buck
2 min read


Act Two
It was a snowy day; pre-Thanksgiving record precipitation. Early in the season when one quickly moves from ‘this is beautiful and a reason to cook and clean and hand wash all the silverware’ to 8 hours later ‘I can’t take this anymore, if I don’t get out of this house now I might actually die in here, clean cutlery and all.’ I was in that state when my friend text me to grab dinner. I was following snowplows to the front steps of my local brewpub before my response reached he

Deanne Buck
11 min read


Safety in Climbing Means More Than a Good Belay
The growing diversity of a new generation of climbers brings exciting new ideas, perspectives and achievements . . .

Deanne Buck
5 min read


Give a Dime
365 days in a year. 365 degrees in a circle- well, close enough. It is the smallest number which has more than one expression as a sum of...

Deanne Buck
2 min read


The Boulder Project
We all have our obsessions, our boulder projects.Lying awake in bed chasing the shadows with our hands, memorizing the sequence by...

Deanne Buck
2 min read
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