Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

I had been teaching myself photography.

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

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

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.

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