Coming of Age
A farm boy celebrates his birthday.
It was 1962 the year that I turned 18, that my life as a young man took a dramatic change. My mom and dad were farmers and had never taken a vacation that I could ever remember. We were a cattle and crop farm operation and the crops were all in and doing well. Dad asked me if I thought that I would be able to run the farm for three weeks while he took my mom on a much-needed vacation. I told him that I was capable of taki...