Product Review: Nicker Doodles

Product Review: Nicker Doodles

When I first started giving my senior mare her arthritis medicine, I joked that a 1000-lb horse was much easier to give a pill to than a little 10-15 pound cat. Of course, heart mare lacks sharp canine teeth and claws, and also has been wormed and is used to being...
Heavy Heart, Warm Muzzle

Heavy Heart, Warm Muzzle

CW: This post discusses pet grief, knowledge of pet loss, and senior horse health issues. I place my hands on either side of Thunder’s broad head and kiss his forehead. He sniffs my face, sometimes touches his muzzle to my forehead, and then he gets the kind of...
It’s Cowboy Christmas Time

It’s Cowboy Christmas Time

I don’t write about western disciplines much, and when I rode, I usually rode English style, so it may seem out of character for me to talk about cowboys and rodeo. But in another life (see Mary Kit Caelsto’s title, Roping Paige), I wrote romances that...
Introducing Horse Agility

Introducing Horse Agility

I was doing horse agility before I even knew what it was. I never have sat on the back of my heart horse, but we have spent innumerable hours working in-hand going over the bridge that someone built for practice, weaving through cones, and going over poles. Of course,...
Returning to Equestrian Fiction

Returning to Equestrian Fiction

It’s been over three years since the publication of Winning Finish the final book in my Cardinal Oaks series. I took some time off to think about what I wanted to do with writing equestrian fiction. Sure, writing about the common disciplines like dressage and...