Tag Archives: Gus
In Praise of Dressage
With the Summer Olympics now over and the political campaigns gearing up to dominate the country like a Category 5 hurricane, people are clinging hard to their surfboards to ride the whole thing out. In my case, I have a … Continue reading
Brushing the Soul
I haven’t posted since January 11! That breaks the first rule of blogging: Thou shalt write regularly. To which I answer, Life happens. Sometimes it throws a curve ball, or a roadblock, or some other kind of obstacle in our … Continue reading
The Horse’s Eye
The horse, I’ve read, has the largest eye of any land mammal. I believe it. It’s big enough to see into the distance, to catch sight of predators in time to run away, even while grazing. A horse has a … Continue reading
“Writing Sex Scenes” Starts Next Week
Starting next week, on Tuesday February 15, Montana author JamieDeBree and I will begin a series of posts about writing sex scenes. We think this will be fun and educational for readers and other writers because Jamie and I have … Continue reading
Listening to Gus (the Horse)
Horse whisperer. That’s a much-overused phrase that implies (to me, anyway) a one-way communication from human to horse. What about the other way around? Who talks about listening to horses? Without knowing a horse’s body language, communication is only one … Continue reading
