An Impressionist view of Nebraska’s Sand Hills is the best I got today. This is incredible country to me, still. After you get into western Nebraska, the land opens in…

 October Thoughts on Life’s Last Season "Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs Honor is cudgel'd. Well, bawd I'll turn And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand."…

I woke up this morning in a soft bed in the guest room of a long-lost fourth cousin. While in Oregon, about two years ago, a man I’d never heard…