Everyone has a theory about luck, wanting to attract good luck and keep bad away. When you make your living riding wild horses or, even worse, crazed bulls in a rodeo, you know that good luck isn’t just important — it is essential. If you could ever get a handle on it, maybe you’d figure out how to play things so you came out ahead, at least for a while.

A story of loss and recovery and learning to take things as they come.