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.
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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