RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.

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End the Strike Now! And a Poetry Book Coming.

I'm not sad to see 2017 go. It was a mean year, all in all. Too much name calling and...
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Getting In Cars with Strangers

My mother told me not to, but I do. I get in cars with strangers. More often than you'd think....
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Poetry for People Who Think They Don't Like Poetry

  I had a boyfriend my junior year of high school. That, in itself, is shocking if you knew me....
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Dysfunctional Fetching and an Anniversary

It's been two years since Stable Relation launched with all the Fourth of July fireworks I could imagine. It was the...
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Composing a Writer #12. What True Self-Publishing Means

I've lost count of the times I've been told I was destroying my life. It started in high school where...
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Composing a Writer #11. Submission and Rejection

I'm not proud of what I did. In my defense, I was in my early twenties; old enough to know...
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Composing a Writer #10. A Manuscript is Not a Book

Let's say pigs fly. You've written the thing you always wanted to write. It's a miracle. It's been in your mind...
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Composing a Writer #9. Beta Readers, Secrets, and Dead Darlings

Most families have an odd relative. It's an uncle with hairy ears who drinks too much on holidays or a cousin who converted to a...
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Composing a Writer #8. Editing the Editing

I was raised by a woman who chronically rearranged furniture. It was a nervous habit. Coming home late you had...
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Composing a Writer #7. Criticism Wanted

I was fifty-nine years old and someone had scribbled "Why should I care?" in thick red ink on my hard-fought...
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