It’s late on a Friday night, and I am reminded that I must have my blog post ready by Sunday afternoon. I will be very busy this weekend, so it is butt in chair and fingers on the keyboard in order to get that done. This week has been filled with tennis, Orange Theory Fitness, […]
National I Love Horses Day
Today is National I Love Horses Day—now officially one of my favorite days of the year. How could I blog about another subject rather than wax poetic on this? I’ve been a horse lover since the very first time I went to visit my maternal grandfather in Oregon (we live in Colorado). He lived in […]
Slow? Or Fast? (#giveaway)
Happy New Year everyone, even though we’re already a week into 2021. I trust you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We had our son, daughter-in-law, and grandkids visiting and it was wonderful. Now that they’ve gone home, the house is so very, very quiet…and even more so as hubby and I live […]
A Western Inspy Author’s Midlife Crisis
Anyone who has read my books for awhile knows human characters aren’t the only ones I adore. Animals of all kinds often make an appearance, everything from the service dogs in my new series to goats, roosters, chickens, donkeys, llamas and more. But some of my favorites are the horses. Every summer as a child […]
She Rode into the Sunset
Hola! Jolene Navarro here. If you know anything about me, you know I’m proud to be a seventh generation Texan. Part of that heritage it deeply rooting in raising and training horses. This is a picture of my great-grandparents. Hodge Crawford trained horses for the Army. As I was doing the at fact […]
Climbing Back on the Horse
As a writer of contemporary western romances, I’ve been thrown off a horse a time or two—literally and figuratively. Rider error, in the case of real horses. In life, these are more of a complete surprise, and not always the good kind. The pitch head-first over the neck of your mount and smack hard into […]
People Watching at the Kentucky Derby by Merrillee Whren
Last month I wrote about our impending trip to the Kentucky Derby, something that has been on my bucket list for years. I’m here this month to share some of the highlights and low lights of my experience. As an author there is nothing better than going somewhere and people watching. The Kentucky Derby is […]
Working on My Bucket List by Merrillee Whren
This is an oil painting that my husband and I bought at an event for starving artists, when we were first married. The painting is hanging in the loft right outside of our home office. I’ve been fascinated with horse racing ever since my mother read the book, Old Bones the Wonder Horse, to me […]
The personal side of research
We have about a dozen horses on our farm that my husband has gathered over the years. Most of them have come here as colts that he bought. A few of them were born on our farm. The one thing they have in common is that my husband, with the help of a farrier a neighbour […]
Unusual Things from My European Trip by Merrillee Whren
I posted some photos of interesting sights from my recent European trip only a few days ago. We saw a lot of castles and churches, but we also some some unique things. I am here again with some fun stuff. This first photo is of a stuffed horse that we saw in the Nymphenburg Palace […]