Nancy Pickard

I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

I don't like to get in front of people.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.