by Kit Caelsto | Jan 16, 2026 | Horse Talk
There’s some bills I don’t mind paying, and for me that’s the horse expenses. I mean after all, I look at what I’m spending and I could either be paying that in copays to a medical system that has shown time and time again that it has failed me...
by Kit Caelsto | Jan 9, 2026 | Book News, Equestrian Lit, Heart Compass Stables
It probably seems like it’s a little late to promote a holiday novella, but I wanted to make sure I had a blog post about this book and well, this is when the timing worked out. Maybe it’s because like Morgan, the main character of this book, the holidays...
by Kit Caelsto | Dec 26, 2025 | Horse Talk
Last month I did an AMA type event over on Mastodon and I really had a lot of fun. One of the questions I was asked was “will you ever make a course on writing about horses?”. Now I know there’ve been a couple of books on the topic, and I either have...
by Kit Caelsto | Dec 19, 2025 | Product Review
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...
by Kit Caelsto | Dec 12, 2025 | Horse Talk
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...
by Kit Caelsto | Dec 5, 2025 | Horse Talk
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...
by Kit Caelsto | Nov 7, 2025 | Horses
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,...
by Kit Caelsto | Oct 24, 2025 | Horse Talk
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...
by Kit Caelsto | Oct 3, 2025 | Homestead Life, Horse Talk
A couple of weeks ago when I went to buy horse feed I had a shock when I found out the feed store was out of what I usually use. Mostly because this is a feed that’s made by the feed store, albeit in another town, so I thought they’d never run out. When...
