Image--roses at Arlington, Oregon, taken by Joyce Reynolds-WardWell, I’m back.I didn’t expect to be away from writing a blog post for so long, but I’ve had my head down writing madly so I could finish The Cost of Power trilogy.There’s also been life...

Exciting things are finally starting to happen in Joyce's book world, along with the horses! As you can see from the picture, Marker and Mocha are now on summer pasture. It's going well for the most part, except when I'm gone for a few days and Marke...

Here's the rough draft cover of the first book of The Cost of Power.Otherwise...yeah, I think T.S. Eliot is right. April is "the cruellist month..."Or so it seems to be, at least over the past few years. It always seems like the good intentions of th...

These two critters are keeping me from running around screaming at the moment. While old Mocha is still her opinionated self, Marker boi continues to think I'm the center of his world and someone to be adored. It's nice having a horse who is basicall...

This horse. This mystery of a horse.Late winter and early spring have been a bit of a challenge because Mr. Boi is acting in a studly manner when he's in turnout with the herd, and he's been dropping his Male Appendage regularly when being handled, w...

Another winter when it feels like the seasons have shifted somewhat. I got up this morning to an intense snow flurry. Now the sun is shining, hardly any clouds in the sky, and there's an inch and a half of snow on the ground that will probably melt o...

Well, I got all ambitious and...nope, it's not gonna work for being aggressive about blogging.The first two months of 2024 have been somewhat of a coming to terms with myself about writing, letting go of ambitions, and accepting the fate of obscurity...

Hi everyone!Did January seem as long for you as it did for me? Part of it was that we spent a lot of the month socked in with freezing fog, plus there was that week of subzero temperatures that got down to -18F. Fortunately, even though our old furna...

Note: I should have probably posted this two weeks ago, but I was still working things out when it came to Substack alternatives. I may still have more to do, but...here we are, the promised response to Yann LeCun's December 31st/January 1st tweets....

Yeah, yeah, I know, this doesn’t fit the current fashion to have your blog posts all neatly organized and corralled because I’m drafting this just before posting, and it’s not on the list of things to post. And I am getting to that place…slowly. But...