 
							
					
															Go Birds!
One thing I love about repping the Eagles is that I’m in good company.
 
							
					
															One thing I love about repping the Eagles is that I’m in good company.
 
							
					
															Retreating into the solitude of the wilds is an image I associate with the greens of a beech-maple forest, not the muted browns of the prairie.
 
							
					
															I assured her I wasn’t taller—there was so much Mormonism in the Utah air that it somehow made her shrink.
 
							
					
															Almost every house we pass, you know someone who lives there, or used to live there, or you used to live there.
 
							
					
															The words “vacation” and “Nebraska” should never belong in the same sentence.
 
							
					
															University of South Carolina, not United States Chicken
 
							
					
															Saw someone once with a bumper sticker that said “I’d rather be driving on Ayd Mill.”
 
							
					
															I did what we all do when our souls are destroyed from capitalism: I took sick leave and ran away to Arkansas.
 
							
					
															I sent dozens of photos to my grandparents’ electronic photo frame.
 
							
					
															Here is a place the narrator longs for, a place whose very smallness and peacefulness my friends have always laughed at.