It wasn't enough to quit my job and skip town. The change my life was craving needed to be bigger than that.
I wanted to be on my own in a way that I never had. I wanted a whole new world, surrounded by nature, where I could concentrate on my writing, healing, understanding who I was, and unlearning the ways I'd been taught to think and live.
After some false starts in Oregon and Montana, a new place fell in my lap -- on a working cattle ranch in high desert of Colorado -- and I couldn't have...
