Life
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How Writing a Book Helped Me Stand Up to My Bullies
I have always loved to write. As a child, I always seemed to use my computer time typing up stories, each one growing longer and more elaborate than the next. By the time I was 13, I’d written five actual books. I still have copies of each one. My fifth was a novel called It Continue reading
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An Impossible Nuzzle
Nearly every person that comes to our ranch has a connection with one particular horse. They fall in love with all of them, naturally, but there is usually one with whom they share a powerful bond. Before I started volunteering at Tierra Madre, I used to think that everybody chose their “favorite” horse based on Continue reading
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It’s Okay to Not Know
[Picture is of Sunny after her first painting. She doesn’t have a plan set in stone for her life, either!] I’m pretty sure I came out of the womb having a plan for my life. I might even say I know I did. When I was twelve hours old, the doctors brought me to my Continue reading
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Sunny
It’s 1 am on May 14th, and I can’t sleep. I am floating. Celebrating. Rejoicing. Tonight (technically it was yesterday, I suppose), at 9:20 pm, I watched this precious baby girl come into the world. We didn’t think it was going to happen then. In fact, around 8 I was preparing to get some sleep before Continue reading
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I’m Free!
My first semester of grad school officially ended last night after I submitted my last final. And so for the first time since mid-January, I woke up on a Sunday morning (after sleeping in till nearly 7), got out of bed, made breakfast, then sat down and tried to decide what I wanted to do. Continue reading
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Baby Watch
For those of you following along on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, you know that we saved a pregnant mare from slaughter two and a half months ago at my ranch. We have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of her foal for ten long weeks, and now – as of April 27th at 9 pm Continue reading
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Head Over Heels
[tldr version is at the end of this blogpost] (I listened to this song today, hence the title of my blogpost. I think it’s appropriate here, honestly.) ~ Okay. So several months ago I wrote a rather depressing post about how life as a college graduate sucked. To recap, I complained wrote about how I couldn’t find a job, Continue reading
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These Last Few Weeks
I write this because writing heals my heart and because I hope that through being honest, I can reach out to other recent college graduates that might connect with what I have to say. Looking back, I’m not sure what I expected in the weeks following my college graduation, but whatever I might have anticipated, Continue reading
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What I Learned From Failing the LEED Green Associate Exam. Twice.
I have kind of kept it on the down low on social media, but it’s no secret that I spent the months of February, March, April, and May studying for the LEED Green Associate exam. Before I go any further, let me explain what that is to those of you who might not know. There is Continue reading
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Life as a College Graduate…
…sucks. No, really. From the time I was five years old, my internal calendar has always revolved around the school year. Normal people consider January the start of the new year and December its end. For me, that beginning started in August, when school started, and ended in May to the tune of this awesome Continue reading
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