There’s nothing to compare sittin’ In the remote manless place Where God is your only company And wind fills the empty space. Lookin’down a mile into valley, You see what life can turn to. Imagination pictures younger time, And you know exactly what you’d do: You’d saddle up and ride away… As you sit alone…

Tinderbox needed no urging as she and Tommy headed out of the corral gate. “Be gone an hour or so,” he told his cousin. Tommy wanted to ride up over the evening side of the ridge before he had to leave for his home in Nevada. The wide-open skies of southeastern Montana made him feel…

The day we wore our uniform And said, “yes-sir” to Mr. Brown, He looked down at us as he had before Then over the crowd of people gathered, Saying loudly, “I could never get him to be so polite in class back then.” We turned, then and simply walked away.

A Waddie bought a new cowboy hat. It made him feel kinda sassy and fat. Spent half a months paycheck Jus’ to replace his worn out wreck. His new hat was fittin’ jus’ right. Ain’t too loose and ain’t too tight. And when all was said and done It kept out rain and kept off…

Now when the family gets together We laugh and we sing and we drink Then “Do you remember…” stampedin’ The tears we find hard not to blink. My kinfolk will poke fun at my style Of clothes that I’ve chosen to wear. “Code of the West” is fiction to them, Even though common stock we…

Thanks to President Barack Obama and Senator Harry Reid we may all be driving so-called smart cars like this one. It kinda makes me long for the day of the Yugo… Not really.

The siren wailed each time the ambulance approached a cross street. He could hear Barney in the back talking to medical control on the two way radio. “We’re in route with a thirty-eight year old male who appears to have suffered sudden death,” said Barney. He stopped and pressed the head set closer to his…

Two or three things are going on today. One is that I’m trying to get some sleep before I have to be at work before midnight. So far, it’s not happening. The second is that Roxy puked under the big bed. I thought that Kyle had passed gas at first. He accused Yaeger of doing…

AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it’s not Walter who’s lacking intelligence. Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that…

Father God, this ain’t my church This isn’t even my town, Lord, Yet here I find myself, my search Looking for you and Your Holy Word. Father God, I am at the well, I am that lone Samaritan woman, Listening, hearing, running to tell Everyone about Your loving plan. Father God, I am Peter the…