Sanders LaMont

Life in the mountains, travel, retirement, music, journalism, family, politics, parks, sailing and a few brain drippings.

Monday, August 10, 2026

Summer 2026 continued

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Murphys, Ca. -- Sitting at my computer here in California's 96 degree heat at 11 a.m. makes it easy to forget how lucky we were travelin...
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Friday, August 7, 2026

Trailer People!

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Murphys, Ca. -- This summer we traveled almost 3,000 miles in a giant loop from home in the mountains to the coast, to Eastern Washington ...
Friday, July 3, 2026

Happy Fourth of July - maybe

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I would like to celebrate the Fourth of July with joy, the way we usually do. But instead I celebrate this year with a sort of sadness that ...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Minnesota Shall Overcome -- It happened before

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Murphys, Ca.— Take heart Minneapolis, honest caring folk will prevail in your community. I know, because I have watched the positive tide o...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

We're Done With 2025 -- Hoping for a Great 2026

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(Most of the family gathered a few months ago at Ruth and Brian's house)Note: for reasons unknown, the paragraph command does not wor...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

A look back at mothering

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Until recently, I had never considered what should have been an obvious to me: my mother never really had a mother she could remember and...
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Monday, March 3, 2025

Photo memories

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Murphys -- March 2025 -- This is a collection of photos I like, from the last ten years or so. Mostly reminders of travels and friends and f...
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slamont
Murphys, California
I live in California's Sierra Nevada south of Tahoe and north of Yosemite. After living above the snow line for five years we recently moved to the wine and Gold Rush town of Murphys. A ski resort is uphill, our sailboat 100 miles downhill. I retired in 2004 to travel, read, write, learn more music, avoid haircuts and wearing ties, and write family history. I was a journalist for over 40 years in five states. I'm a native of Atlanta, and my children and grandchildren are nearby. I was raised in Mobile and miss gumbo. I am a politically independent guitar-picking Christian anti-war Army veteran tree-hugger.
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