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I should be writing. Still, I find myself spending hours searching online for the perfect horse. Yes, it is true that two hay-burners chew and sigh contentedly in the barn and I love them deeply. They make me smile every day. Though maybe not yesterday when the phone rang early in the morning. “Your horsesContinue reading “Confessions of a Horse Obsessed Woman”

Right up the road from where I live is a huge farm of Black Angus cattle. Next door and across the street are large green pastures where the cows and heifers spend the months of summer. There is a rhythm and routine to their lives. Every morning and evening they are brought a “little snack”Continue reading “The Brown Cow”

Part of my recent funk has been a problem with one of my horses. I have two:one is my 19 year old “good doober” and the other is an off the track thoroughbred(OTTB) who I adopted to keep the older one company. My older boy is still rideable, but he has a breathing problem whichContinue reading “I Don’t Bounce Like I Used To”

Burlington, Vermont is a perfectly nice town. Perched on the edge of Lake Champlain, it’s actually quite pretty-good shopping, great food, what could be better? I’m hoping I don’t have to go there again. My sister and I drove there to meet with the lawyer who is representing us in an ongoing dispute with myContinue reading “Why My Sister and I Drove Four Hours for a Crepe”

It starts with a picture. An old-fashioned amusement park, complete with a casino, rollercoaster, and a small lake. It was called White City. And it was my backyard. Of course, when I was young, the amusement park was gone; the lake had shrunk to a small pond, only the legend of the rollercoaster remained, andContinue reading “Going Home”

I heard “Drops of Jupiter” on the radio the other day and ever since, I have been thinking of Melissa. The line that gets me is: Your best friend always sticking up for you/Even when I know you’re wrong. I have written parts of her story and it is, I feel, one of my mostContinue reading “Drops of Jupiter”

So, as they say, life goes on. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Not sure I buy that one, but I have changed and tried to move on.There are still little reminders-like an ongoing battle with insurance companies and settling an estate- but that’s a blog in itself. I now live in a placeContinue reading “Of fantasy land, unemployment, and too many animals”

Have you ever looked back at a period of time in your life-it could be a specific event, day, week, month, or even year- and thought, holy crap how did that happen? I’m talking about a castastrophe that changes your entire life path and looking back resembles the aftermath of a war-time air raid. Let’sContinue reading “The story thus far”