Consider the Cow

Rebekah Iliff
6 min readDec 27, 2022

When thinking about women’s issues, perhaps we should look to nature for understanding.

Photo by Daniel Quiceno M. via Unsplash

When Nashville exploded with coastal emigration, and our once tolerably trafficked street grew congested with insipid flat-roofed homes, my husband and I decided what the hell and purchased a 15-acre farm in Springfield, Tennessee — a mere 30 miles from Music City. After carefully crafting a pros and cons spreadsheet, signing on the dotted line…

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Rebekah Iliff

Nashville-based. Words in Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, Points in Case, Erma Bombeck, and more. Author of “Champagne for One.” rebekahiliff.com