The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Sometimes I wish I had become a football coach instead of a cowboy. I admire football coaches because their lives seem so simple compared to the rest of us.

If we pass a coach on the street or meet him at the Post Office, most of us do the same thing out of habit.

“How ya doing?” we’ll ask. I have to admit I utter those words out of habit. Honestly, most of the time I really don’t care how that person's doing. In fact, I’ve usually passed on by before they issue the standard OK. Truth be known, they haven’t really thought much about how they are doing and, if they had,...