I’m at the ranch to check on my four thoroughbred horses.

Kit, six, is skipping next to me as we climb the rutted hill to the mesa
where they’re grazing.

We own all this land, right mom?

No Kit, I say,
the only land we own is in a cemetery.

Leslie Karzen is a 40-year advertising veteran with an award-winning passion for words and storytelling. Her flash/memoire book “Loosely Based Stories on a Life Loosely Lived” was published in 2021.