The Passion to Punish
First, last, and always, this is the truth about communication with animals: Punishment is the lowest form of expression. A...
Photo Challenge: Tiny
Feel that tiny instant just after the thrust, the silence of soaring with hooves thundering down below. The push of...
Word Geek Needs Prom Date
“She’s insufferable with this stupid human game. What’s wrong with tossing a ball? We try to...
Winterizing the Compassion Fatigue. Again.
Chatting lightly about weather is considered the tiniest of small talk, unless you live outside the urban bubble. We take...
Photo Challenge: Chaos
There's a kind of grace in the slippery unbalance of chaos when I remember it's only the rear entrance of...
Bite Your Tongue.
It's an election year and I'm a politics geek. There, I said it. But the rhetoric is deafening. Sometimes there...
Photo Challenge: Transmogrify
Time and shadow blurred our edges until we became each other in a shared breath never fully exhaled. Anna Blake...
Going the Full Heart Distance: Saying So Long
It's deep fall here on our farm. Most of the leaves are gone; Canada geese are on the wing. Each...
The Best Reasons to Stop Riding
I think I've heard all the clichés about change that I can stand. At a certain age, we don't...
Photo Challenge: Local
As vast as mountains silhouetted and layered angled across the horizon. As close as whispers of breath, nostril to flank,...
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