A memoir of the road, family reckoning, and what happens when a woman stops waiting for perfect timing..
Buckskin Rides Again
Buckskin Rides Again is what happens when a newly minted “junior old person” decides she’s done waiting for perfect timing and rides her BMW motorcycle eleven states west to check on her aging parents.
What begins as a practical trip turns into something else entirely: a long look at the country that raised her, the family stories that shaped her, and the woman she has finally grown into.
What begins as a practical trip turns into something else entirely...
As the miles collect beneath her, Tamela Rich traces the labor and luck that built her people—coal camps, rail yards, insurance desks, dog-grooming basements, and the wild ingenuity of an itinerant pony-photography circuit.
And always, there is her mother: funny, unpredictable, and forever mid-hustle. A woman who once taught karate, worked the home-party circuit, and took down a shoplifter with the Vulcan Death Grip. Now her memory is slipping, and the road becomes a place to face what’s changing, what might still be mended, and what must be released.
At once sharp-eyed and tender, wry and deeply felt, Buckskin Rides Again is about the long journey from being staged to becoming self-directed.
It’s for every woman who has found herself somewhere between daughter and mother, wanderer and caretaker, still-young and suddenly old—with a heart full of questions and a road that refuses to rush their resolution.
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