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Authors, Literary Dogs, and Artificial Intelligence

A beady-eyed burnt-orange sun crept over a smoky horizon, and it's hot-air balloon season in Colorado. Juxtaposition: A new day...
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Totally Quanked and in Search of Our Own Personal Pickleball

Yes, it's a proper word. I didn't make it up, but I wish I had. Quanked is in the 1893...
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Horsewoman, Has Your Neighborhood Gone to the Dogs?

I traipsed across Minnesota and North Dakota through factory farms and cemeteries this summer. Trying to link childhood memories with...
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Falling in Love All Over Again for the First Time

Coming home, the washboard road is as close to a drumroll as we'll get. We are bleary-eyed and dog-tired. I...
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The Cemetery of My People, Part Two

Road trips have a feeling of being unstuck anyway, but this trip to the land of my people was like...
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Traveling to the Cemetery of My People, Part One

Mister is barking in a steady rhythm. His metronome bark. Consider it a warning siren. He knows. There is a...
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Jolene’s Family Reunion Isn’t Just Fun and Games

Mister would like you to know that we had a record two naps in one day. We were staying at...
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Jolene’s Nose, My Ears, and the Death of Embarrassment

May I brag? I have celebrated the death of embarrassment. It was a freedom I gained by competing horses. Horses...
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The Dog Barn and Literary Lounge

Just a reminder, dear reader. I'm a horse trainer using all I know to raise a puppy. If your horse's...
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We Don’t Recognize Jolene

Jolene says, hurry up, would ya? I am not dawdling. I'm getting my hearing aids, looking for my outside glasses...
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