Outta Texas and Outta Practice

"Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses." - Stephan Colbert The reminder as I chase a new dream on the plains of No Man's Land. Life changes. Priorities change.  I moved to Guymon, Oklahoma to not be a two-hour drive away from …

The Wright Priority

Question. Where was your great-great grandfather born? Mine, Willaim Robert Wright was born in Missouri. Up until last Saturday, I could not share where. I even had the birthplace of my mother wrong. Sorry, Mom. *I did have the right location, only mixed up the order of where and when. "The thing that interests me most about …

Romance and History Among the Thistles

The Texas Panhandle, and High Plains in its entirety, always pulled at this Colorado girl's heart. Prarie grass rolling in the wind and sunsets that rival those behind 14,000-foot mountains are hard to describe to people not from the Panhandle. "It's a different kind of beautiful," I would always say. The romance of open spaces …

Pinky in Surpise

Suprise! Happy 75th birthday, Grandma! 15 hours on the road to spend 20 hours in Colorado, nine of those were sleeping, all to help surprise my Grandma for her 75th birthday. My aunt initiated the idea and we all kept it a secret. This wouldn't have been possible without Grandma's dear friend, Marty. She took …