“It was a test,” he told me, after pulling me aside. “It’s a story I thought you’d like, a story I wanted to tell you.”

Found it. I just hadn’t read the small print. I had turned right off the gravel road and headed to the scruffy Cather Township cemetery

We were blessed to get into the place. The blasted Covid stuff is closing everything these days, and with good reason. But our permission to

It was, I’d like to believe, at least something like this rendition–big choir, lots of folks on stage. I was a boy–kindergarten, first grade or

He was a colleague, my boss, my editor and, for a long, long time, our neighbor and good, good friend. From just across the street,

The land out back is vacant, all flood plain.  Nobody will build behind us, so we’ve got an acre of grass, native flowers, and Russian

[Two weeks ago, in a comment, David Stravers asked about men and women of conviction in America’s western saga. I responded with a few names

In his statement, [Tribal] Chairman Frazier cites the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty that says “no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon

I didn’t know her well, just enough to tip my hat maybe, if I’d ever worn one. Probably said “hi” is all. She lived on