Tips for Desert Rats Who Encounter Lawns

A few considerations for people unfamiliar with the cultural attachment to grass

Emily Withnall
The Belladonna Comedy
3 min readAug 20, 2019

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Rusty push mower laying on the ground
  1. DO consider what it means that you have moved to a place with lawns:
    a. More rain (Don’t forget that you used to dance and pray for this. You said three days of rain would be awesome, so buck up).
    b. The sun sometimes disappears for a week. It might even…

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I teach and write in Missoula, Montana. I am working on a book about domestic violence and hydraulic fracturing. Find more of my writing at emilywithnall.com