C. McGuinn Freeman

@cmf406

She/Her. PhD. Author of Place Last Seen. Published in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, Dark Mountain, Best American Food Writing, Terrain. Newsletter: Getting Dirty: Material Entanglements in the Anthropocene (

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C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Jul 4

My semi-annual rant about this problematic holiday in a place that has been sacrificed to tourism. "What to the land is the 4th of July?" getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2024/07/08/b...

Yellowstone river cluttered with boats, Absaroka range rising behind it.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Jul 3

The sign of my people:

Dekalb corn seed sign in a plot of midwestern corn.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Jun 25

We're having our first normal cool June in years. It's a balm.

Emigrant peak in Montana with a big cloud hanging in the middle distance

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Jun 12

In 25 years on the border of Yellowstone, being charged by a young bull moose is still my most terrifying wildlife encounter. And we had these guys emerge from our irrigation ditch last summer (if I hadn't been on the porch, they'd have taken #1).

Three grizzly bears crossing our Montana cabin yard, in front of the rustic basketball hoop.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Jun 5

William Baffin has entered the chat

Single red shrub rose blossom William Baffin variety

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Jun 1

Happy Pride! Grateful that my family has always been proud of our gay ancestors. Here's my great-aunt Marie, known in Chicago as "The Duchess" who ran a Catholic settlement house for 50 years. Two of her brothers, also probably gay. On Dad's side, gay uncle, lost to AIDs. Deeply loved, all of them.

Marie Plamondon in her WW1 ambulance driver uniform. She drove newly-built ambulances from Chicago to the East Coast to be shipped out to Europe. This uniform is in the collection of the Chicago History Museum.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 29

When the Ponderosa can't be saved, despite all your efforts, you decorate it instead

Trunk of dead tree with limbs lopped off then decorated with elk antlers and topped with a deer skull and antlers

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 18

It's snowing outside my window too! This was our morning dog walk.

Absaroka mountains covered with snow, Yellowstone river in mid distance, green grass and falling-down wire fence in foreground.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 13

Oh my heart! Reminds me of my Hank when he was a baby (grew up to be an 80lb old baby! Border collie/aussie/Pyr)

Adorable black and white border collie mix puppy with his very pink tongue hanging out

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 12

Taking over French Worker jackets is rich. Those are not your people you Palantir dickheads.

Striking French workers barbecueing sausages on a moveable grill set up to roll on the trolley tracks.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 12

If Late Night comes back, and I'd like it to, can we please make sure it's not five white guys in suits? As funny as they are (well except for Fallon, who's a hack).

Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon on the couch for Stephen Colbert's show.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 3

I love Baby Hugo. Have you seen Baby Hugo and Baby Doncic in Spain 8 years ago?

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 2

People of blue sky? Would you like to see a black bear skull my beloved found yesterday?

Underside of a black bear skull with molars visible

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· May 1

There might be hope for my sour cherry crop after all.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 24

More snow than we've had all winter...

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 23

ARGH. There goes this year's plum, apple and cherry crops. It's just my backyard orchard, but I can them up and eat them all winter. Deeply bummed.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 19

Spring has sprung

Clothesline mounted on a wood privacy fence filled with brightly colored laundry

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 19

Spring is 2 months early but as a result, I have GREENS!

Raised bed hooped with plastic filled with spring greens

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 18

Ooh! Look what the postman just brought me!

Cover of Governing Bodies by Sangamithra Iyer

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 17

Reading the absolutely bonkers "Staying with Relations" by Rose Macaulay. A delight.

Cover of Staying with Relations by Rose Macaulay

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 11

I've done the wrap, pry open the jaws, stuff a pill in, clamp the jaws and blow in the nostrils. Who knew a 9lb cat could be such a force? Eventually I wound up crushing thyroid pills into wet food, but they were small. (RIP Betty Boop, we miss you).

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 10

I'm so old the "cool" Catholic youth minister wore this T-shirt, in our white, wealthy conservative town. A lot of us protested Chile, and the Central American wars, and Iran-Contra, but the post 9/11 fucking patriotism surge erased most of it.

Girl wearing a t-shirt with Uncle Sam pointing. Text says Join the Army, travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting unusual people, and kill them. (photo off eBay listing)

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 6

French Murder Stairs in this episode of a French Murder show (but no one is being murdered on the stairs).

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Apr 1

We finally got a little snow. The elk seemed happy, and entirely unbothered by the coyote pack hysteria just to their right

Three elk bedded down on a snowy hillside

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Mar 26

Wet Hank with random elk bones is here to congratulate you!

Soaking wet border collie with several chewed over elk bones.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Mar 23

Hello world!

Two baby chickens peeking over the protective cardboard in their dog crate

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Mar 15

Since I had to see it, and it cracks me up, here's tiny Mom, about 2 weeks before her demise from the Covid the pulmonologist's office gave her, raising a newly-empty 11am glass of vodka to finding out she didn't have lung cancer despite 70 years of smoking. (I used it for her funeral announcement)

Tiny old woman smiling broadly while lifting an empty glass of vodka at 11am. Also, large cup of nearly-empty coffee in front of her.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Mar 7

One of her former staffers chimed in on a Reddit thread about it (www.reddit.com/r/MontanaPol...)

I want to share some things, as someone who briefly worked for Reilly on the campaign as her personal assistant.

She treats her employees very poorly, she paid me less than the agreed upon amount during my time working there and intentionally avoided any written communication on salary for that reason.

She has zero qualifications but clearly feels entitled to win. I questioned her about this, with the hope of having a response if ever asked. She said:

“What were sheehy’s qualifications? He just had a lot of money, well I have more than he does, so that’s enough”

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Mar 4

My maternal grandmother was the star grandparent. Debutante w/ drunk husband who went to work at Parker School for tuition for her 4 kids, stayed 50 years. General factotum, field hockey coach, bus driver, farmer, polo player, horse trainer, snowmobile enthusiast, danger gran.

My grandmother, on her favorite horse Annie, teaching baby me to ride on Obediah, the pony my mother learned to ride on.

C. McGuinn Freeman@cmf406· Mar 4

Hank is guarding his 2 new baby chicks