Relaxed & Forward Blog

Telling the Truth about Secrets.

..."Anna is so brutally honest about things that are considered sacred in general society." A recent quote posted by a...
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Book Talks: Grade School Revisited.

Gideon and Kim Walnes, reading in a more comfortable place. "Oh no, not another long inane...
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No Permission. No regrets.

"No Regrets." Such big words. I've been thinking about future regret since I was little. Parents warn us early on...
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Yodeling, Yapping, and Ya-hoodling: A Book Trailer.

If you follow my farm blog, you know about the Corgi Men. There's Walter who came from a rescue in...
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Living with Animals: That "Crazy" Title

Before moving to the farm, I always had dogs and cats, and usually a bird or two, pushing the legal...
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Thank You Cards and a Book Event!

It isn't that I never learned to say thank you. You can bet I did. I just never knew about...
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Crowdfunding–The Old-fashioned Kind.

My friend Coy is on vacation with Stable Relation. Here they are at the airport. I admit I came a...
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The Runaway Book Launch.

I had a plan. Not that it matters, but I did. Every time I arrive to give a riding lesson...
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The Yin-Yang of the In Between. (Book release July 13th.)

Remember at the end of the first Terminator movie when all the flesh was burned off Arnold and the shiny...
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Gifted Balls, and a Date to Hold.

A few weeks ago, a woman called me for horse boarding information. She was looking for a place for a...
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Judging a Book by its Cover.

Designing a cover. No big deal really. First, you spend heart and soul telling a story, early mornings and late...
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Gatekeepers and Temple Grandin

I went to hear Temple Grandin speak this week. I'm not sure how many times I've seen her now, but...
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Friendship and Honesty

"Stop it, can't you just smile? You're so much prettier when you smile." My mother was right on one level....
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The Irony of Memoir.

Do you read much memoir? I've been reading almost nothing but memoir these last two years. It started with wanting...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: (Un)Broken

From my other blog, but more appropriate here...
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Uncomfortable Things.

May I start by saying I think we can all agree that introverts can be party poopers sometimes. I mean,...
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A Job that Needs Doing…

One of my first apartments after leaving home had a nasty-cold floor in the bathroom. Winter was coming, so I...
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