Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.