"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 …

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 …