TV shows like Roy Rogers, Wild Bill Hick…but Annie Oakly was my hero, most likely because she was a girl. My dad bought me the Annie Oakley dress,cowgirl hat and six guns and I played and played cowgirl. I’d saddle up the branches of apple trees in the yard and talked my farmboy playmates into acting out TV show scenarios. What fun!

Thirty-eight years ago, I married a mountain boy from Colorado and moved way out west where there’s room to breathe as far as the eye can see.

Our state is full of people from everywhere else, enticed by the dream of live and let live.