I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.