Real-Life Ranch Tale Serves as Warning to Weary Urbanites. Everyone has a story to tell just from living. But the key is in the storytelling. By that paradigm, Mary Lynn Archibald is one great storyteller, and her memoir is at the same time sad and funny, but it is a story worth reading. It is the story of a couple of crazy urbanites who dream of escaping the dreary existence of the rat race, and become (sic) country squires on 120 acres of lush rural beauty called Twin Creeks Ranch... ”