Ride the River

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an’ she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain’t!

up, his features stern with disapproval. “I

at me again, and then the pen. “If you want that money,” he said, “you had better sign.

City folks dress a sight different than we-uns and you don’t want to shame yourself.

off the leaves and straightened my clothes, wishing there was