Stories

My first love was a horse. Only a few days old, he picked his feet up high and cavorted around his mother, his head held high. He snorted, as if we humans were so unimportant, and he was the greatest in the world. I named him Prancer. A few years later, after his...

Barn owls are different and mystical.  I just learned that barn owl chicks in the nest share food and make sure all their siblings get to eat.  I read an article in Audubon.org by Emilie Silber about what some researchers from Switzerland discovered—baby barn owls...

A baby javalina was lost on the ranch. In Arizona, cattle ranches are very large. Our ranch was one of the smaller ones, only five and a half sections (each section is a mile square). My husband and I were driving the pickup to a spot about three miles from home to...

I got my good laugh today.  Pepe (small white dog) wanted me to throw his toy while I was dealing with paperwork in my office.  I took a couple of minutes and threw his snowman toy (the one that is a good squeaker) for him. Seeka (new calico kitten) was...