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Thirty-Six Years
I spend all month dreading this day. Now it’s here and it’s suspiciously like all the others. I got up before dawn to feed the ponies and clean stalls. Then I swept the kitchen. And took Bowie for a hike. Now, like every other day, I’m settled on the couch ready to work. So […]
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FIRE POWER, BOY SCOUTS and the F WORD
First off, get your mind out of the gutter. The F word here is Faith. While the other F word is one of my faves and comes out of my mouth probably three or four or twenty times a day, I rarely speak of faith. Faith has never come easily for me. I do believe […]
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TATTOOS, OLD FRIENDS and SECOND CHANCES
In the last few years I’ve lost two friends—one to death and one by choice. Hers, not mine. The circumstances are different, but the grief is the same. I fell out of touch with the first friend. We stopped working together. I moved. Life got in the way. I made a few attempts…
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FOR SANDY – WHEREVER YOU MAY BE
It’s funny how we break time into fragments. Before I got married. After I had kids. Before I went to college. After I became a novelist. 1990 was definitely a year that fractioned my life. When I look back on that time, I mostly see it as the year we lost my brother Rob. It’d…
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Who Says You Can’t Go Home Again?
This is not a tale of everything happening for a reason, but of how wonderful things can be the result of a less-than-ideal situation. How is that different? You tell me. Last year we sold our house so we could build a barn and bring home the ponies. James and Popsicle are old…
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Inside Turns and Seventies Bands
I have a reputation. No, not like that. I’m old and porky and married to the greatest guy in the world. I have a reputation of being fearless on a horse. That I’ll get on anything and go in the ring and get the job done. No matter how long it’s been. Well, that is […]
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ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, GOOGLE MAPS.
So I’m not a big believer in fate and I definitely don’t buy the whole everything-happens-for-a-reason thing. But, a recent experience has me wondering. Let me share it with you. My BFF, Sasha, needed a ride somewhere. (Wait a minute—wasn’t she the inspiration for my last blog…
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The View From the High Road
I have my BFF, Sasha, to thank for this blog. She always says, “When they go low, we go high.” Today I put that mantra to use and I gotta say, it felt pretty good. Let me tell you what happened. Kurtie and I are at Coop’s lacrosse tournament. The poor kid is playing with […]
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ODE TO THE GRUMPY HORSE
ODE TO THE GRUMPY HORSE My son, Cooper, has a new horse named Chuku. He’s an off-the-track chestnut thoroughbred. For all you non-horse people, think red headed stepchild with ADD, ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Some racehorses are taught to be aggressive. After all,…
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DARN YOU, LOU. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LIVE FOREVER.
They say you can’t pick your family. In my case, I kind of did and I chose the best one. I just didn’t know it at the time. When I met Kurt twenty years ago, I had no idea that his family would become such an important part of my life. We’d only been together […]