Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

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.