Category: Essays
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How I got my name
I get asked this question all the time. It has a lot to do with a red New Holland Combine. In the 1980’s farm crisis, land was dirt cheap. Ag land values plummeted, and interest rates soared. Many farmers and ranchers couldn’t make payments on ag loans. Creditors took possession of family farms and ranches…
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I would make a poor matador.
Last Saturday I checked into the unconscious hotel for minute or two. I was just starting to enjoy my stay, flying in the clouds, when I awoke to a mouthful of dirt. My dad was holding my head, mumbling desperate prayers to Jesus, asking me if I knew where I was. “The ranch?” I heard…
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Women Ranchers
Three reasons why I didn’t think I could be a rancher
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Melting point poetry – for the spiritually frozen
Melting point Help me let you melt me –When I can’t feel –When thick layers of apathy cover an ocean of living water.I’m sick of skating atop the surface–Pretending I’m walking on waves. I’ve tried to break the ice myself –simulated religious experience to no effect.–preached about the sea while frozen solid.My angry axe never…
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Why I don’t go fishing : an extended metaphor
When academia isn’t enough
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Don Quijote en la Teología de Dietrich Bonhoeffer
5/23/2019 En la Alemania nazi de 1940, Dietrich Bonhoeffer se involucró con el movimiento de resistencia para asesinar a Hitler. Fue en este tiempo cuando Bonhoeffer empezó a escribir una de sus muy bien sabidas colección de escritos, Ethics. Viendo la pasividad de las iglesias cristianas alemanas y la aprobación por parte de las autoridades…
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Breaking the Grass Ceiling: A Study of Women in Agriculture
Sentel Schreier 