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The Prairie Homestead: Return to your roots • The Prairie Homestead
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Not in the dramatic, “nobody understands me” way. More in the quiet, lifelong way—like I’ve always been standing half a step outside of whatever circle I’m supposed to slide into.
It started simply: I was a shy kid.
Then I became the weird horse girl. (Still am…) Then I was the homeschooled ...
When half the country is worried about “the storm of the century” and people are posting about empty store shelves and fallen trees…
But I’m craving winter.
Not the travel delays. Not the busted pipes. Not the white-knuckle drives.
I mean winter—the real kind. The kind that ...
Photo Credit: Lindsay Linton Buk/Linton Productions I never planned to be a restaurateur.
But here I am—going on five years of owning a restaurant in one of the smallest towns in Wyoming.
It’s one of the most gratifying things I’ve ever done. It’s also one of the most exhausting.
And those two things can be true at the same time—sometimes in the span of fiv...
Maybe it’s because I’ve lived away from my family since the tender age of eighteen.
Maybe it’s because I live in a ranching community where “everyone else” lives on land homesteaded by their ancestors. Same last names on the mailboxes. Same brands on the cattle.
Maybe it’s because so much of modern life is built around le...