But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.