Happy Horse – Mother’s Day
When I was eight: *she made me polish my own boots and clean my own tack before every show *when I told her not to stand by the ring whispering “keep your heels down, keep your head up” she was … Continued
A Snowman Mystery
Back in late August, 2011, just before The Eighty-Dollar Champion was published, an article appeared in USA Today about the book. That night, I got a phone call from a man named Roy Haupt. Roy was in his eighties, and … Continued
Why do Authors Love this Place?
Being an author is a pretty good gig. You get to work at home spending hours and days thinking about things that you love, and then you get to go out and meet fans whose lives have been touched by … Continued
I’m grateful for a simple act of kindness more than fifty years ago
It was 2008, and I was not in a particularly good place in my life. After publishing two novels, my editor died, leaving me without a contract for my next book. My job as a nurse-midwife and my life as … Continued
A Path Back to the Road Not Taken
““There were ten minutes to wait in the vet box before the start of the cross-country …. ” So began the first story that I almost published, and with it, the story of how the seeds of a dream, once … Continued
Luck and other Mysteries.
1981 I was a sophomore at Yale when I wrote a story called Keeping House. It was about a woman who refused to get out of bed, and so her house was slowly overtaken by dust, until she was eventually … Continued
Out of “Luck,” horse finds a new home
Bohemian’s first job as a racehorse didn’t workout too well. He never “broke his maiden” and aged out of the racing industry with less than 10 starts. His second job as an actor (portraying a racehorse) for the HBO tv … Continued
My first thought was “oh I like him…”
When my husband, Craig, and I left for the 2010 World Equestrian Games at the Kentucky Horse Park, I thought I’d come home with some great memories and maybe a pair of new breeches from the trade fair. I never … Continued
Was that her way of saying “thanks, and I love you?”
Tory is an Off the Track Thoroughbred that descends on her sire line from the Irish champion Danzatore and on her mother’s side from the Preakness winner Tank’s Prospect. She was not very successful at the races, running mostly in … Continued
Divorce, fear of other harnessed horses and snakes!
One night I found myself sitting at a working horse Clydesdale show horseless after losing mine to colic not long before, when I struck up a conversation with a good friend who I hadn’t seen for a while. After a … Continued
