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

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

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.

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.

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 had been teaching myself photography.