“You don’t know me!” “You haven’t live my life!” “Don’t judge me until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes!” We’ve all heard people make these statements. Perhaps we’ve said them on occasion. Defensive occasion. Why are we so defensive about our faults, real or perceived? Have you ever examined the nature of this particular […]
The cows have come back to our fence line. There is a farmer with a lot of property on the other side. No, not a farmer, he once corrected me, a rancher. Cattle rancher, to be exact. How we love and marry our titles. The rancher rotates his cattle so they can eat the tall […]
Sometimes I get stuck in my head when writing these essays. I put them down and look at them later, often to find that I’ve tripped myself up with verbiage, that I’m not really writing what I think I’m saying. And then I have to rethink where the essay is going and if there are […]