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This is Between Business Cards
Between Business Cards is a collection of short stories. Small ones, mostly — about ordinary moments that turn out to be bigger than they look. The name is the place a lot of us land: after one role ends and before the next one has a title. And it’s where I’ve found myself recently. This isn’t a self-help blog. I’m not here to fix anyone or hand out advice. But every so often I believe I stumble onto a small human truth — usually when I’m least looking for it. The stories are true. They happened to me. The moments that matter rarely announce themselves. They turn up in kitchens…
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Johnny Ringo’s Last Ride
Rusted barbed wire sagged between crooked weathered posts. Dust clouds spewed from our back tires like a roiling prairie storm, covering the mesquite-lined ditch banks and blanketing the tufts of buffelgrass. Richard and I were exploring the Wild West. Horses now replaced with horsepower. Old wagon trails covered by cracking asphalt. Wide expanses of high desert as far as the eye could see. And no signs of the living. We hadn’t seen a vehicle for at least ten miles. We had detoured onto a four-mile dirt road as we traveled through southern Arizona on our way to Silver City, New Mexico. In search of Johnny Ringo’s gravesite. As we bounced…
