Dear Reader, I am living the life that I desperately prayed for when I was in college and working in the office. Even just a year ago, it seemed unattainable, or at least a far-off dream that I wouldn’t get to live out until my forties. I think that one of the reasons that my … Continue reading Picking Mounts
Dear Reader, I used to think that my life was boring and would make up adventures in my head as child about being an orphan and building a house in the woods to survive. When we were little our favorite game to play with our cousins always involved some form of running away from “the … Continue reading The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Dear Reader, I can feel summer slowly creeping away in the last week. In Florida I would have been thrilled, but here in South Dakota, even though it has been so hot, I find myself clinging a little bit to summer because I know that winter is coming and it lasts longer here than summer … Continue reading Cooking…
Dear Reader, I think I have made it over the hump of home sickness and have settled into the reality of my new life. I think even if I did move back to Florida, my heart would not be satisfied because I am really homesick for a reality that doesn’t exist anymore, not necessarily a … Continue reading Red, White, and Rodeo
Dear Reader, I didn’t think that it was possible for a place to be so cold and then become so hot. Yesterday the thermometer on the car said 105 Fahrenheit. Thankfully we got our A/C fixed the week before it got really hot. In a way the heat here is easier to deal with without … Continue reading Just Summer
Dear Reader, I have been in South Dakota for 2 months. When you first move to a new place you are only thinking about the new and exciting things. You think that you have left your old life behind and you have an entirely new personality. New habits, new friends and new adventures. But at … Continue reading New Places and Faces
Dear Reader, The first full week in South Dakota has been as rolling as the hills that surround our house. The first two days that I was here were relatively warm and windy, I woke up the first morning and it was 67 degrees in the house which was really cold for this Florida girl, … Continue reading It’s the Little Things
Dear Reader, I am still here. I’m still a rancher’s daughter with big dreams, lots of books, and too much coffee. A little older, a little more acquainted with the grief of this world, and more appreciative of the beauty in it. It’s been quite a year with a lot of changes. Some a long … Continue reading Different Places, New Faces, Same Me
Dear Reader, There are many professions that are created because of imperfect circumstances. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need professions like doctors, soldiers, policemen, firemen, garbagemen, and politicians. I am sure that there are many people in these professions that (if there was no need for their occupation) would happily hang up their coats … Continue reading Cowboy by Choice
Dear Reader, July and August weather can be under appreciated, especially if you live in Florida—and even more so if you love fall. It can be hard to appreciate the moment you are living in when it feels like everything is melting—quite literally. I have a car freshener made out of scent beads that just … Continue reading Goodbye Summer
From the Rancher's Daughter's Desk 