Travelblog: Thinking About Aging in Ancient Surroundings
I was in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I had finished ripping around Scotland and arrived at my hotel, where a group...
Travelblog: It’s a Vacation. Not a Work Trip.
My first vacation in a donkey's years started with a van ride to Denver International Airport, with the obligatory drop-off...
Growing Up: Self-Consciousness vs Self-Awareness
My teen years were pretty normal, meaning total angst and torture. There was that summer that I used my babysitting...
Book Launch: Say Hello to ‘Undomesticated Women’ by Anna Blake
It's before dawn on a Friday morning and I'm in an RV park in Amarillo, Texas. I've been mud-wrestling...
Undomesticated Women. Anecdotal Evidence from the Road
30 states, 2 oceans, 14,000 miles, 8 months Welcome to our year of living compactly. My dog, Mister, and I...
Undomesticated Women, Anecdotal Evidence from the Road
Amanda and Stable Relation at the Pan Am Games. I don't know if I told you......
Poetry Out Loud: Horse. Woman.
This blog will get back to some sort of new "normal" soon. What a year, huh? For now, just a...
Book Release: Horse. Woman.
Book Release! Available Now! Horse. Woman. Poems from Our Lives "It was a tough life if you was useless.” -Leafa...
Photo & Poem: Tea
Stomping in the back porch to knock the dirt off my boots, there’s too much wind to work outside...
Book Release: Going Steady, More Relationship Advice from Your Horse
Tada! It's here! Going Steady, More Relationship Advice from Your Horse is now available. Find the links for ordering through...
Authorblog: A New Book. Does It Count If I Haven’t Suffered Enough?
Writing Stable Relation, my first book, took me sixty years, give or take. Okay, I exaggerate, but I had anxiety...
Photo & Poem: Faraway Friends
I would show you the adolescent Canada geese on the pond. Better behaved than we ever would have been,...
Travelblog: Introverts Everywhere
Humans spend so much time trying to “make” horses do things. I’m a little more fascinated these days with what...
Travelblog: Addressing the Vegetarian Haggis
And again, sorry if this is a repeat, but it was time for the blog to come home to roost......
Travelblog Photo &Poem: Dog Hair
Reviewing talking points, morning coffee cooling in a contemporary hotel room eight thousand miles from my prairie farm. Dressing for...
Photo & Poem: Snapshot
How did these things get so old, when I remember as if just a week has passed? This snapshot of...
Book Review:Horse Prayers by Anna Blake
Horse Prayers has landed! So grateful for this wonderful review from Anne, and she shared two of my favorite poems.
The Book Launch That Went Splat! And an Online Poetry Reading.
It was almost like the Olympic Ski Jump event. There were cameras rolling and tension in the air. Edgar Rice...
Travel Blog: Shall I Be Mother?
Say hello to Bruce. He is the spokesmodel for The 2018 Long Ears Tour, an unexpected title bestowed on my...
Photo & Poem: At a Writing Workshop
At a Writing Workshop A dog stalks the sofa, gazing with one eye and then crossing his nose to...
Horse Prayers Book Release July 5, 2018 (Yay!)
Horse Prayers, Poems from the Prairie is available July 5th! The release of Horse Prayers, Poems from the Prairie,...
Travel Blog: Addressing the Vegetarian Haggis
Distant Balmoral Edinburgh, Scotland. The first moments in a new country are never the best....
Photo & Poem: Say Her Name
As you say her name, your voice drops deep, a tight raspy croak. Not haunted with loss, but shaken...
"Horse Prayers" Cover Reveal
Horse Prayers Poems from the Prairie Hooray, it's the cover of my next book. I know, it's a totally different look...
Time Travel, Tell Mary Oliver Not to Worry, and the New Book!
"Meh. Is she done yet?" I've held out on you. Stable Relation wasn't really my first...
Writing/Traveling/Writing
Miss me? I know I've been quiet lately. As a matter of fact, I did drop off the edge of...
Travel Blog: Kangaroos Ahead
Here is another weird thing about my job. I never have any idea where I might end up. First, I...
Travel Blog Photo Challenge: Airport Story
Australia Verson: It's all about me. Me at the Melbourne airport. Me waiting for my flat white, teenager in line...
Travel Blog: Why I Should Stick to Horse Blogging.
Confession: I have zero credibility as a food blogger. Each and every meal we had was spectacular. Nothing less. Even...
Travel Blog: A Leap of Faith
I get in cars with strangers. That's me by the airport curb with a suitcase. If things are going well,...
Travel Blog: Being Here Now
This is the view out the front of my deck: pastures to the ocean. I'm having a rest day, staying...
Travel Blog: Whitebait for Lunch
I was watching first-run Star Trek episodes before I ever took a commercial airline flight. I only mention this because...
End the Strike Now! And a Poetry Book Coming.
I'm not sad to see 2017 go. It was a mean year, all in all. Too much name calling and...
Getting In Cars with Strangers
My mother told me not to, but I do. I get in cars with strangers. More often than you'd think....
Poetry for People Who Think They Don't Like Poetry
I had a boyfriend my junior year of high school. That, in itself, is shocking if you knew me....
Dysfunctional Fetching and an Anniversary
It's been two years since Stable Relation launched with all the Fourth of July fireworks I could imagine. It was the...
Composing a Writer #12. What True Self-Publishing Means
I've lost count of the times I've been told I was destroying my life. It started in high school where...
Composing a Writer #11. Submission and Rejection
I'm not proud of what I did. In my defense, I was in my early twenties; old enough to know...
Composing a Writer #10. A Manuscript is Not a Book
Let's say pigs fly. You've written the thing you always wanted to write. It's a miracle. It's been in your mind...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Composing a Writer #3. Comfortable Creativity
The first time you saw him, he was hurrying down the street, hat brim pulled low, and his cape flying...
Composing a Writer #2. Just Write
We're big talkers. We debate and dream and create. There are issues that good people should agree about on but...
Composing a Writer. #1 Tools of the Trade
Everybody has a list of wishes, some more idle than others. Early retirement is an idle wish if you aren't...
Amazon Recommends My Books. To Me.
Do you ever have that experience where you tilt your head, squint, and hear a dubious voice in your head...
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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