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...
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