Charlie McNab cowboyed for the Marble Ranches during the years Dad was the general manager at the headquarters in Deeth.  We moved back to Elko in 1956, but I don’ t know how long Charlie had been a boarder at the Star before Dad became reacquainted with him.     My folks loved the Star, well, who didn’t?  They were particularly fond of Marguerite and Domingo Ozamas, the owners during those years.   My guess is that sometime when they went down to the Star for dinner,  Dad sp

Sorry!    A play for voices         In the background playing softly,  ” I’m Sorry ” by Brenda Lee RETTA:   I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he was walking by, and he was like, 'Oh, I'm so sorry!' And I was like, 'It's all right. Robert Redford can step on my foot.' NINA TASSLER :  People step on my feet and I’m the one who  says “ I’m sorry.” MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO:   No one has the right to be sorry for himself

Another Tuscarora Tale        Nothing matters to the dead/ that's what's so hard for the rest of us/ to take in-/ their complete...

Another  Tuscarora Tale                          This spring I asked Harry if he would please cut down an overhanging chokecherry branch...

It is not only at the opera that we think of life as a story and wish it to end well.       Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow...

Another Tuscarora Tale This is not one of those “You had to be there” stories.  It is one of those “Have you ever taken a wrong...

Note to the reader:  I wrote this in 2015 for my cousins Patti and Chris  and especially for my sister, Itha.         June 1015.  It is...

Another Tuscarora Tale “The flames that neared Tuscarora were part of the Dunphy Complex of fires that scorched roughly 163,00 acres.” ...

I first read “Tintern Abbey'' at Tintern Abbey on April 21, 2012.  I was sitting in the back seat of David’s VW Passat with a cd playing...

In 1938, Dad  graduated from Utah State University with a degree in range management.  The 1930s were a significant time for...

Another Tuscarora Tale That wasn’t the reason my friend Linda called the other morning. But it was big news. She found her breeding...

With these stories about family, you expect them to know your dad and when they hear the story, “They laugh and say, ‘That’s just like...

Another Tuscarora Tale Introduction :  In an issue of the Progressive Rancher , Becky Prunty Lisle has a cautionary tale illustrating the...

Another Tuscarora Tale “It’s never inappropriate to name a house.” Martha Stewart “Ask Martha” Living, June 2001 The summer of...

This time of year, the dead of winter, was chosen for the first Gathering in 1985 because it’s a time when ranch folks can get...

In 1939, Dad took a job in Reno with the University of Nevada Experiment Station as a range assistant.  Just out of college, newly...

The events in our lives happen in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order…the continuous thread of...

“You got to dance with who brung you, swing with who swung you.  Don't be a fickle fool…'cause in the long run you'll have more fun, if...

Another Tuscarora Tale One evening, a number of summers ago, my friend James told me this story about the man who lived in the small...

I was in the middle of my Monday routine at Eagle Fitness doing leg presses on the machine closest to the entrance.  Jason, my trainer,...