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...
Photo Challenge: Reflecting
It’s the job of a hero to stand a strong wind, invincible against a dark sky, giving us pause to...
Calming Signals and the Aggressive Horse.
Just to be clear, calming signals are not something humans do to calm horses. It's the language horses use to...
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...
Photo Challenge: Danger
The danger of horses is not their strength and power, thrusting forward with a brilliant heart, ribboned with intelligence, clean...
Calming Signals: The Dance of the Halter
We're breaking in a new farrier here at Infinity Farm. The new guy is soft-spoken, uses a nice pink hoof-stand,...
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...
Photo Challenge: Wanderlust
It’s the irresistible call to scout hidden ravines and gaze along the elevated vistas behind the shade of an eyelash,...
Concept Clinics: A different approach
I've been thinking for a while now about the process of learning. It could have something to do with the number...
Equine Retirement Planning.
First, I watched Brentina's retirement ceremony. Then Secretariat's last race and Valegro's final Olympia freestyle. Who doesn't need to watch Aldrich's...
Composing a Writer #6. Writing for Readers
It's a moment of exquisite anxiety. The kind of anxiety that's prickly and blunt at the same time, and you...
Photo Challenge: Earth
Earthling, born of indelible green, translucent waters, boundless clouds and sky, and tasked in each small life to be curious...
Bend… Like a Crescent Moon.
I arrived at the barn mid-fight. The barn manager was refereeing a dust-up between a trainer and a boarder who...
Composing a Writer #5. Write Long, Write Short
As soon as I escaped, I started writing poems. I was barely eighteen and living four states away from my...
Photo Challenge: Surprise
Dawdling through chores, then a dousing in the shower And rushing to a book event, I checked the visor-mirror for...
Touchy About Bits.
Confession #1: There was a time that I would have sold my soul for a spade bit with 12" shanks....
Composing a Writer #4. Why Words Matter
She's been my friend for decades. That was me at her daughter's birthday party, singing and tap dancing in...
Photo Challenge: Security
The feel of home. You tuck it safe in some tidy place, half-way between fresh dreams and dear memories. If...
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