"Ranch Journal"

As I sit and ponder tradition, at first I feel like a dog chasing his tail. The dilemma is this: It is important for humans to move forward and learn from their mistakes and not to hold on to the dogma of their forefathers. Therefore traditions are dangerous if followed to blindly. But mankind’s celebration [...]

The car grew silent with excitement as we turned off the paved two-lane highway onto the five-mile dirt road leading through the mountains and valleys of Montana to our destination: Nine Quarter Circle Ranch. Every summer for nine years, my family had made the seventeen-hour trek from the freeways, housing complexes, and automobiles of southern [...]