By Sara Goodman Growing up, my parents raised us to be very independent. My mom worked in town, my dad farmed, and we had no cell phones. Life was tougher than it is now, or at least that’s what I tell my kids. We lived 18 miles out of town on a farm in the middle of nowhere. If something needed to be done, we were likely going to have to do it ourselves. My dad taught me how to change the oi...