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 live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

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

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.