“Now Why Don’t She Write.”
Why people don’t follow up with you
7 min readOct 24, 2019
For those old enough to remember the movie Dances With Wolves, one of the early laugh lines, tinged with sadness, is when the foul mule driver Timmons comes upon stagecoach people who had been killed by Indians. They’re out in the middle of the sweeping Dakota prairie, oceans of yellow billowing in the breezes.