Have you ever had the feeling that something just wasn’t right for you? A job, a prospective mate, a certain food perhaps? You couldn’t put your finger on it , but some part of you just knew? Some call that a “gut reaction,” and, in […]

God bless everybody out there who does animal rescue! I’m sure anyone reading this blog has done more than their share and taken in many homeless animals who would have otherwise ended up . . . well, we won’t go there. So you all well […]

I didn’t dream it would be so soon after my last post, but the weather this afternoon was so sublime, and my back felt pretty darn stable, so today was the first real ride in six months for Bella and me. Hurray! It wasn’t a […]

Ah . . . that phrase is used for so many things in our culture. When you hit a bad bump in life, or experience a major setback, get a divorce, lose a parent, just have a bad day . . . ya gotta get […]

My family has four wonderful dogs — three large and one small, whom you’ve already met if you’ve been reading this blog. That’s Tucker, the Chiweenie, a 2-1/2-yr.-old Chihuahua/Dachscund mix I rescued from the Humane Society on September 10, 2008. Tucker is the hit of […]

Shifting from * doubt into certainty; * a hot humid Texas environment into a cool dry New Mexican one; * a demanding business schedule into a more fluid one; and, last but certainly not least; * nearly balanced health into totally unbalanced health, and then […]

Bessie is a 9-year-old Auracana hen, the type that lays what a friend of mine calls “Martha Stewart” eggs, in lovely gray-greens, soft blues, and muted turquoises. Bessie has a gorgeous array of auburn feathers, each delicately traced with a fine herringbone pattern in silver. […]

Yesterday was a great day. In many respects. Not the least of which was the fact that Penelope Smith, the preeminent forerunner of animal communication in our country, came to dinner! At my house! In Cerrillos, New Mexico! There is a story here. But first […]

So. After my last post,  let’s go back to Copper to see if he has pondered long enough to come up with a comment for the blog: “Copper, what would you like to say to everyone? Are you ready? Have you had enough time to […]

This morning I went out to the barn and asked Copper what he would like to say to everybody in my blog. He’s been waiting to record his thoughts and philosophies on life for a long time now, and I’m the only person he has […]