Blogs

I'm involved in a life-long love affair with water.

We were at the little feedlot, about 20 miles from the home place, working a pen of yearlings. It wasn’t a really big or complicated job, but as was par for the course on our outfit, we were short-staffed.

“A” is for apple – remember learning the letters primer? How’s about an age-appropriate alphabet, starting with each letter’s relevance first to a very young person, then older, then full blown adult, then “second childhood”?

How many times a day do you answer no to a question? How many times a day do you say no by not saying yes?

Last month, my family and I relocated to my hometown. It wasn’t a move I ever expected to make, but when the chance came up to live near our people, we took it.

Growing up, getting by, surviving and hopefully thriving in a life immersed in the cowboy world can sometimes be a genuine struggle to even the most patient and strong-willed among us, no matter how you may have steeled yourself to cope with the everyday mishaps or occasional tragedies the lifestyle lobs your way.