The Most Important Lesson—Freshman Year 1979

The Most Important Lesson—

Freshman Year 1979

Roommates

I’m going to tell you about my freshman roommate, Lily*.  Because when I was seventeen, Lily taught me an important life skill that I am still trying to master.

You Can’t Keep The House Your Daughter Was Born In

You Can’t Keep The House Your Daughter Was Born In

Remember that night, as my midwife Ghuru B, a tiny woman from Chicago, smiled at me? I was on all fours on the bed and mooing like a cow in distress. I knocked my tea mug over, the stain spreading down the wall, while my husband pressed the spot on my back to suppress the pain. And finally after twelve hours of labor, she was born.

A Texas Ranching Adventure: They Paid a High Price

 

The Tree Was Witness

An ancient pecan tree was witness to the Jacksons’ violent deaths and, 140 years later, the tree provided shade for the people gathered together to remembering the Jacksons’ fates.

Texas Sesquicentennial

Texas Sesquicentennial

 

“Time to go, girls!” says Maria, the supervisory auditor, pushing back her chair, sticking out a leg, and checking her hose for runs.  “This is important government business!”

A Texas Ranching Adventure: The Spirits of the Field

Texas Ranching Adventure:  The Spirits of the Field

Behind our ranch house and across a dry creek bed was a long rectangular pasture.  There was something strange in that place—it could be felt.

Framed/A Book Review

“You’re Luddites!” my friend from the city accused.  “For farming with horses in this day and age!”

A rooster crowed; the goats grazed on the meadow.  My husband and I had been too absorbed in the work of a small farm to have studied this movement.  “What exactly is a Luddite?” I asked.