It Ain’t Her First Rodeo

As a native New Yorker, rodeos were a rare sight as I grew up. I attended a rodeo once in NYC, but that had less people watching the action inside than outside protesting cruelty to animals.

When I first started my professional writing career, my editor assigned me to the local rodeo. Press credentials bounced on a lanyard around my neck as I waded into the equine equanimity and bovine belligerence…