I’ve been needing a recharge. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have an amazing life! Jeff and I got married this past September, after 8 years of waiting, building our relationship, and parenting our boys. I’m still blown away by the depth of joy it brings, to weave our lives together this way. My work […]
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I’m not a thrill seeker. I’m not one of those folks who is hooked on adrenaline. True, my lifelong love affair with horses has me court high adrenaline moments on a more regular basis than some, but that’s not the draw for me. Unfortunately, I’ve spent more years of my life on the anxiety side […]
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Yesterday, my life changed. Jeff and I got married. I wasn’t anticipating the depth of the change this has wrought in me. For both of us, this is our second marriage. There’s pain left over from a previous marriage. Scars. A reticence to trust, and fully open again. And we’ve worked through the majority of […]
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God often speaks to me in images. I guess He knows they stick with me. I was working at Hope Reins this Saturday, and we had a great turnout of volunteer families helping to keep the ranch looking beautiful. It was a gorgeous day, and everywhere I looked there were folks working together. It just […]
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I’m sliding into the end of the year; that parenthetical time when holiday happenings sweep me out of my daily routine. The frenetic rush towards Christmas is past, and I sit replete with too much delicious food, and beloved company, cast upon a now quiet shore, as the high tide of celebration recedes until New […]
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It’s been two years. Two years since I sold my farm, gave away my beloved horses, and felt the lights go out inside of me. Horses are my first love – and they speak to my soul in a way that nothing else can or does. I began riding at six years old, and spent […]
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The other night I heard the song, “Thank You”, by Led Zeppelin. If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me… It’s been years… Not since the song […]
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I don’t like puking. Not that anyone does… but I REALLY don’t like it. I end up throwing up about once every 10 years – and only under the most dire of circumstances. I’ll stay green for days, rather than let myself throw up and feel better. Thankfully I don’t have a queasy stomach, and […]
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Winter came stealing round the house last night. Not ready to make a commitment… just looking for a one night stand; hoping to cheat Autumn out of one of our last evenings together. He can be like that, you know. Autumn is a lush, and I adore her. She woos me with reds and yellows, […]
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As many of you know, this summer has been an adventure in moving out of my farm, and into my ‘now’ sweet little home in the next county, about a half hour away. Well… our new home was one we picked up as a pre-foreclosure. It had been abandoned for months, and though it had […]
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