Here in the great state of Nebraska, we just closed out the most magnificent autumn season. The kind with gentle sunshine that warms the back of your neck, but produces no perspiration. The type with

Ice breaker questions are not my favorite thing in the world. You know those questions asked around a table in an effort to ‘break the ice’? This disdain is not drawn from my lack of

There’s no sense in denying it, so I’ll just say it. I’m getting older. And I’m taken off guard to discover that it’s harder to watch time march across the body than I could have

I used to have this scrap of paper, one that I saved for many years. It was torn from a magazine and lived in the junk drawer in my room. A picture of a woman

If you live anywhere near the wide open spaces of lush, sprawling grass and towering trees of green, then you’ve seen fences. All the fences. The ones made of woven wire, rusted from time and