Is there a perfect Wyoming Christmas gift?

Cody native Shelley Simonton, while volunteering as a Salvation Army bell ringer, makes this observation: “Those who appear to have the least, ALWAYS find spare change or a shaggy dollar to put in the bucket.”

Her Facebook post caught my attention as I was doing research for my annual column about “the perfect Wyoming Christmas gift.”

It sometimes takes a lot of years before people truly learn that “giving” makes you feel a lot better than “receiving.”

An example: for the past two decades-plus, my wife Nancy has headed up the local Christmas Food Basket drive. What a pleasure it is to be invol...