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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...
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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...
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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...
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Photo Challenge: Earth

Earthling, born of indelible green, translucent waters, boundless clouds and sky, and tasked in each small life to be curious...
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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...
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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...
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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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Touchy About Bits.

Confession #1: There was a time that I would have sold my soul for a spade bit with 12" shanks....
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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...
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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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