OMG, my niece won! I am related to royalty. Congratulations to Miss Box Butte County Fair Queen, 2017, Dani Carter.

I liked the big raindrops in summer, how they sometimes steamed on the asphalt when it got hot and rainy all at once. I remember hiding from nature in our orange basement on Mississippi Avenue and in the cellar on East 8th Street. I remember the police scanner in our living room and the emergency broadcast system beeps and warnings all through tornado season. I remember mom trying to save a sparrow during a storm and how I simultaneously wanted her to help the bird and race i