Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.
A writer's work is to witness things.
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.