Family resemblance – of the equine sort

by | Dec 23, 2011 | Horses

Originally posted 10/13/11. In researching the history of Polish Arabians for my current manuscript, I dug into the lineage of my own baby. See what I found! (and realize there’s a difference between my photography and the professional shots…) Do you see...

Quitter – and what it meant to me

by | Dec 21, 2011 | Writing

Originally posted 5/20/11. I could probably blog about Jon Acuff’s book “Quitter: Closing the gap between your day job and your dream job” for a solid month. The basis of the book “Quitter” is finding a way to reach your day job, without...

Are you living a good story?

by | Dec 19, 2011 | Writing

Originally posted 5/4/11 (my 25th birthday!)  While writing a script based on his memoir, Blue Like Jazz, author Donald Miller took a good hard look at his life and the story he was living. If only we all had moments like this to make us look at our lives the same...

My own “story behind the story”

by | Dec 16, 2011 | Writing

Originally posted 7/12/2010 –  In my childhood, my head was always filled with stories like the Chronicles of Narnia, the BFG, Call of the Wild and so many more. I gobbled up all the horse stories I could find. When I hit the sixth grade, I ran out of books that...

Hitting the blogging pause button

by | Dec 14, 2011 | Writing

Jon Acuff (author of Quitter) posted a blog about taking the latter half of December and reposting old blogs and giving yourself a bit of a break. When you come back in 2012, you’ll be fresh and ready for new content. It’s good to pre-empt burnout when you...