'Easy to assemble' is the world's great lie Lori Clinch Are We There Yet?       My mother, Lord love her, called the other morning to tell me that she had bought four new kitchen chairs. Isn't that just nice? As she talked, I pictured four matching chairs at her table just begging for guests to sit around with a cup of coffee. I didn't get physically ill wh... More ... A New York City icon on the Green River's banks Greg Bean Coda       This is a story about optimism, but before I tell it, I have to tell you a little bit about small towns in Wyoming. When I was growing up there, I went to high school in Casper, which at about 35,000 inhabitants was referred to by the folk who lived in truly small towns as "the city. More ... Pet names don't take power from a truly liberated lady Clare Marie Celano Girl Talk       A man I was very close to was fond of calling me Tinkerbell, or Tink. He also told me I was solely responsible for global warming. Here was a man who understood the power and value of balance in an intimate relationship with a woman. He also called me Princess or Angel, much to the c... More ...