Texas
Drought is God’s Punishment
Until last week I thought the drought that’s squeezing California resulted from natural weather fluctuations, and didn’t want to be political or presume to have scientific insight so rarely mentioned climate change and then only as a relatively minor factor. I should’ve known there was a much simpler yet more ominous explanation, and Shannon Grove…
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This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
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I had not planned on changing careers. I was delighted to be the cow-herding celebrity on a Texas ranch of former fireball pitcher Nolan Ryan, who threw a record seven no-hitters. I don’t much like baseball as it’s slow and boring but love football, a game in which my four hundred pounds of muscle would’ve…
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