We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple of years. It helps keep a geographically disparate family connected while allowing us to ride horses, fall off horses, fish for rainbow trout, hike, swim, nurse the ear, chest, throat and sinus infections we’ve picked up on the plane, and read books to our hearts’ content. This trip was May Blossom’s first such holiday. Two years ago she came