I had been teaching myself photography.

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.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

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.

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

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.