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Photo Challenge: Names

Hold clean intention in the word chosen to label a life given to your care; words are prayers that illuminate...
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Safety and Being a Spoil Sport.

I'm a riding instructor. Wait, it's worse than that. A riding instructor who has read the small print of her liability...
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Photo Challenge: Resilient

This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
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Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying

It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
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Photo Challenge: Path

Perhaps the reason for my books... just trying to keep up.
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Photo Challenge: Path

when it all looks obscure she leads not lost not found but traveling beyond the map so follow close your...
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The Politics of Holiday Pie

Inconceivable: I'm going to share my pie recipe. I'll pause and give my friends time to pick themselves up. They know...
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Photo Challenge: Anticipation

Long shadows at noon, cramped days slip to bitter nights this dark solstice. Waiting for new light a minute at a time....
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Riding a Suspension… of Disbelief

Some of us are okay with who we are in the saddle. We don't question the ride, or if we do,...
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Nickers, brays, bleats, howls, and quacks. Now.

We are Long-Ear approved. A whole lot of books do not have this designation. Barn Dance has been available for...
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Photo Challenge: New Horizon

inconvenience be damned the next improbable howl of resilience is just beyond the word yes so just yes ... Anna...
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BARN DANCE *Book Launch*

Excuse me. Um. Barn Dance is now avail... *** Speak up. Enunciate.  *** He's right behind me, isn't he? ***...
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Negotiating; Not Fighting.

It was last spring when this ancient donkey came to the farm. In the beginning, we thought she might not...
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Photo Challenge: Relax

Memoir Babies not embraced turn into sullen kids not good enough, graduating to insecure young adults, lost in bad decisions...
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Mental Focus Means Not Trying Too Hard

My friend and I took yoga while we were in high school. It was 1971 or so, and I can't...
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Photo Challenge: It’s Not This Time of Year Without…

  bucking tradition: when seasonal words don't fit when obligation overwhelms desire when some mourn or have none or do not when the...
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A Word from My Publicist (Cover Reveal)

My name is Edgar Rice Burro. I'm the publicist for Prairie Moon Press. I got the job because I have...
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