Cathy Healy

Cathy Healy works with K-12 classrooms worldwide as they make a difference in the world.

Cathy Healy

Advocate for K-12 Global Collaborations

Bloomingdale’s Aggressive Junk Mail Campaigns

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Cute. Bloomingdale’s jammed my mail box with an oversized, heavy-glossed paper mailing about a sale….with no phone number to order. I keep receiving these mails and I want out of their campaigns.

 Here’s what I had to do to ask to be taken off their mailing lists:

1) Put on my reading glasses to figure out from the 8 pt., extra-light print that to get off the list I had to cut out my mailing address and MAIL it to Mason, Ohio. C’mon! In 2014?

2) Do the above.

3) Only stamps I have are left-overs from Valentine’s Day so it looks like I am sending Bloomingdale’s love. What I am sending is enough irritation to a) take the time to do the mailing and b) take the time to blog against them and c) determine to avoid their store. (Which I go in about once every 2-3 years, so this is no skin off their nose. 😉

Wyoming Public Radio airs interview about “Improbable Pioneer”

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Wyoming Public Media, which my friends at home and I call, “NPR,” meaning Wyoming NPR, aired an interview with me about An Improbable Pioneer. Reporter Irina Zhorov and the sound techs did a classy job of smoothing and tightening.

What’s amazing, but very Wyoming, is that Irina had alerted me that the interview would go live on her Open Spaces show in a few hours, but before she could send me the link, I got a call from Jerry Sanders in Buffalo saying he’d heard the interview and thought it was excellent. Jerry helped a lot with the book, even going up to the Big Horns to shoot a last-minute pic for a chapter opener the day before he had knee surgery.

To listen, go to: A New Book Of Family Letters Looks At Wyoming Living In The Early 1900s.

To buy: An Improbable Pioneer @ Amazon.com  (all royalties go to the Washakie Museum in Worland.)

Rock slide blocks our ranch road from the Dickie to the highway

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 Early in the morning of Jan. 28, which in a ranchers’ world means before 6 a.m., limestone rocks cracked and tumbled across the LU ranch road blocking the Dickie from the Thermopolis-Meeteetse highway. Barb Love emailed my brother, Mike, alerting him that heavy equipment had been ordered to clear the road. One boulder was as big as her dining room, she said. Barb’s husband, Danny Love, is foreman of the LU. My brother is president and CEO.