What is it about horses that draws people in? More specifically – what is it about horses that appeals to most every little girl? For those few fortunately little girls that convince their daddies to buy them a pony, it can change the course of their life and their dreams. (But, daddies, don’t be fooled: it won’t keep your little girl from dating boys. In some cases, that plan can backfire.) ReadWriteWeb (a tech blog) wrote about “Horses on the Internet” and measured the level of interest vs. internet sensations (specifically a twitter handle called “Horse_ebooks” that has somehow captivated people). It also compares internet “coverage” of dogs and cats...
The Life, The Legend, the Dog I Never Really Knew Much About
When I saw the shiny, hard-cover book at Barnes and Noble entitled, “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend,” I was pretty much a goner. A beautiful dog, born in the trenches of WWI that became a movie icon for decades? Count me in. I’d heard the name “Rin Tin Tin” before, but aside from the fact that the dog was a German Shepherd, that was about all I knew. But this dog brought animal actors to the center stage, in a time where the film industry had barely begun to grow. This dog spurred a rise in the popularity of the breed so vast, the breed ended up...
Behind my instinctive, unreasoning love of horses
When I introduce myself, I say in this order, “I’m a writer, social media coordinator and a horse lover.” The order of how I list these things is skewed. The horses came first. Then the writing, and then social media as my current day job. Horses have been a huge part of my life. I can’t explain what it was that drew me to them in the first place. As Lady Ann Blunt says, it is an inborn love, instinctive and unreasoning. In the same family, my mother and I were the only horse lovers. My sister (same upbringing and same blood) had no real interest in them. Now, she...
What a tiny, itty-bitty world it is
(Please note, I didn’t title this: “It’s a small world…” because I’d have that song stuck in my head all day. Well, too late…) As I’ve waded through the edits on my latest novel, I’ve spent hours researching the rich history of Polish Arabians (even discovering my own horses’ ancestry). You know the story behind this novel – Witez II and his incredible journey during WWII and under Nazi occupation. Throughout this process, there have been a series of silly coincidences. From discovering my horse is of Polish descent to finding a woman from Poland within a historical fiction writing loop I’m a part of. (She was able to double check...
How Horses Changed Me, Defined Me
Horses defined me long before I was even born. As a child, my mother was a horse owner and my father…sometimes was forced to clean his sister’s horse’s stall. (One of my favorite family stories is of him getting frustrated at having to clean the stall and slamming the metal pitchfork into the ground – and into his foot.) After I was born, it was pony rides, horse figurines, horse books and everything My Little Pony. Nothing has changed in 25 years, really. My first horse, Whiskey Rose. When I was twelve, I found my first horse waiting in the driveway after I returned from a two-week vacation with a...