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    • 100 Books Celebration Drawing Prize

      Congrats to Trudy Webb, our winner of the 100 Books Celebration drawing prize! Please email me the email address you’d like your horse-related rune reading sent to. I will get it to you by May 30th.Thank you to all who entered! I look forward to doing more prize drawings for future book goals. If you…

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    • Old Paths

      Yesterday I was caught off guard by something I thought I had already worked through. It wasn’t a big thing, I just got unusually angry about a situation that shouldn’t have been a big deal. I had to go back and reevaluate why I was so stressed about it. The anger and fear had snuck…

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    • Celebrating 100 Books!

      Well, we made it, and only a few days into the month of May! Standing in a Field With Horses has reached a hundred sales! That’s a hundred more people who have read a story about learning relate to horses without dominance. A hundred more joining a beginner in tentatively feeling out some way to…

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    • Nearing a Goal

      Exciting news for the book this month: sometime in May we will hit 100 sales of Standing in a Field With Horses!  It’s amazing to me that this independently published book with no initial audience now has almost a hundred readers. Thank you to everyone who has read it, shared it, and reviewed it on…

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    • Bits and Pieces

      I read a book the other day that was recommended to me by a horse group that I follow. It wasn’t something I would have picked up without a recommendation, but I was curious. The book had some things in it I didn’t agree with, but I also found things I hadn’t thought of in…

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    • “He’s Disrespecting You”

      I would like to return these phrases, I don’t want them anymore: Get after himShow her who’s bossDon’t let her get away with itHe’s testing youGive him a little ‘encouragement’Give her a tap/kickBe the leaderDon’t let him dominate youAsk, tell, demandMake her workHe’s trying to pull one over on youShe’s faking it to get out…

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    • Excerpt from the Chapter Rex: Cleverness

      It’s springtime, which means my little mini horse buddy, Rex, is suffering from spring allergies again. Until I started volunteering at the horse rescue I had no idea that horses could have allergies, but they can! Here’s how we found out that Rex suffered from them: “One day in spring, a high-pressure front was moving…

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    • Grief and Patience

      The past month or so has been a lot of me asking for others to be patient with me. Be patient while I struggle to care about anything besides being helpful to a sick family member. Be patient as I comfort loved ones while barely able to function myself. Be patient with the brain fog,…

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    • Authors Love A Review

      When I began the self-publishing process for the first time, I had no idea how much of a struggle marketing would be for a first-time author with no public persona developed. Amazon frowns upon selling things to your friends and family, and having a pseudonym doesn’t help with social media discovery. I did some sleuthing…

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    • Is It Necessary?

      When I was new to horses, the first thing I tried was riding. It wasn’t that I was particularly drawn to riding, it’s just that seemed to be the only access to horses available to me at the time. I tried out multiple riding stables, but would get a few lessons in and then stop,…

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