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Every Time He Shakes His Tail

I was in my late 30s, finishing my Master of Arts thesis, when I finally understood writing as a process. Admittedly, it sounds silly but in 1986, the “how-to” of writing was threatening an academic tradition once thought unassailable, at least in the English department at a small university in the Rocky Mountains. It was […]

How Not to Become a Zen Master

“That’s right. Blame it on Zen,” my neighbor, Grace, says. With Zen, I just don’t hold onto names or nouns anymore was what I was thinking, aloud it seems. Grace is a Zen master not because she is 90 but because she is contemplative in all ways. She was born to it. And she attends […]

Courage in Every Size

Today’s #DailyDose features a favorite place of mine, Second Chance Farm (SCF). Regular readers may remember SCF as the sanctuary of Cooper James and Emma Rose. It lies deep in my heart as do the people who live there. At the farm, courage comes in all sizes, shapes, years, and species; love seems to […]

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