On January 6, 2021, I swapped my profile pic on Facebook to an American flag in a moment of rare solidarity with Congress and hope for the c...

  "How come pale face always take more than he can eat?"

Sometimes I post because I read something inspiring.   Sometimes I post because I have something to say.   Sometimes I post because there is...

Good grief, there is a  Breckinridge Elkins web comic !  To be honest, I probably knew about this in my first time pass through this blog, b...

From today’s Lives of the Cowboys on Prairie Home Companion: by Larry Dixon “You spend weeks out on the prairie longing for the ...

I’m spending this weekend laid up on the couch with an ankle injury, watching old westerns on Netflix and writing for the blog.   I just...

I don’t know how many readers are familiar with Taco John’s, a fast food Mexican chain.   I have never eaten there, largely because I c...

“I ain’t much for shootin’ unarmed men, so if you got an iron, you better slap leather.” A great line from a fun short story in th...