Oh Mesa de Anguila, you slippery, slidey thing you
I swing the saddle up, lean into the horse and gaze toward Mesa de Anguila - one of the least visited areas of Big Bend National Park -...
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This ride's for you
Big Bend National Park, Texas The first thing that changed was my hands. Short but clean nails are now dirty and ragged. Rings no longer...
OK, let’s go down the rabbit hole (a compilation)
If I had a secret code, it would be one of eagles and roosters. Of stars nesting in blackness. The simmer of an arced flame and the slow...
Do not confuse the writer with the woman.
Of being alone with being lonely. You see, both have their place. Just as the sun completes the moon and the rain gives way to clear blue...
Lake Amistad, Texas
We drive through the valles and arroyos of west Texas, the flatlands and mesas, the ridges and mountains climbing tall into clear blue...
This is the year I let go.
The year I move into my own, away from those who bring the rain and hold on tight to the sun instead. The year I learn to love myself....
The river is not in a hurry today.
Pedernales River State Park | Texas A dappling of light and dark gives an illusion of softness to the hard limestone bed underneath. ...
Maybe I am the one you don’t want.
Tucked here in my chair of regret, of hopes and aspirations. You see, I know what it’s like to hate yourself. And to love yourself. To be...
The Muddy Rio Chama
If I had a secret code, it would be one of eagles and roosters. Of stars nesting among threads of blackness. The simmer of an arced flame...
The woman I am is buried somewhere
The woman I am is buried somewhere inside. I see her on dirt roads and highways unending. Cross-country in the desert, high on the...
I am not a cowboy,
and I don't profess to be. That title belongs to others. Me? I am somewhere between horse girl and wanderer. Between stainless steel and...
Christmas Mountains & The Bad Rabbit of Terlingua Ranch
(as published in the Winter 2024 Cenizo Journal) This is the country they call life. A place where you can be yourself - unencumbered by...
El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains Nat'l Park
Sometimes I drive until I find myself anew. Casing the southwest as if the dirt will scrub me clean. To the desert and mountains of New...
Book Excerpt: Shaffer Bend Recreation Area – LCRA Park, Marble Falls, TX
We follow the dusty, white caliche toward water downshifting along the way, driving slowly through the bends and curves of the road. The...
THE WHOLE THING
The Moon climbs above the mesa. The Milky Way spreads her wings. The Big dipper shifts in the sky, and the Sun chases away the dark. I...
To Be Real
I am my best in a spiral notebook, wrinkled and blowing pages. In the solitude shared with animals, that silent language we all speak. ...
Ode to Terlingua
I didn’t always love myself. It’s not enough to simply show up. It takes purpose to shed the paradigms that others place upon us and I...
Lost and Found in Monahans
(as published in the Fall 2023 Cenizo Journal) This is a story of a horse and the girl who loves him. I lie back on the picnic bench and...
Keep writing he said, it will get you out.
So I fill in the blanks. It is, and I am... and every now and then it will be. I ask myself that every day. When the power goes out, the...
Gila Wilderness & National Forest, NM
We drive until the pavement ends and then drive some more through an old mining town turned touristville where dilapidated cabins mingle...
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