Miss Tea: Horses, High School, and Heartbreak (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781721088973)

When I was about five years old my family got a backyard pony. Sparky was cantankerous at best, but that quality taught me and most of the kids in the neighborhood how to ride. He was a patient fellow, aged, and wise beyond human expectations. Often three or four of my cousins or siblings would climb on, imagining the wildest gallop across Grandpa's vast pastures, leaping logs and rushing streams. Sparky, of course, would have none of that. He usually would eat grass or his favorite, the purple buds off of the most wicked of thistles in the middle of the biggest patch of them he could find. When he was full, he would eventually mosey out of there, but we would have to lug his saddle back to the house ourselves unless he happened to be going that way. I did eventually graduate to trail rides on real horses. After that, I studied dressage for many years and did some shows as well. My Merry-Go-Round series is roughly based on horses, people and places from my growing up years. This is my second series of books, the first started in 2015 on a whim that I could write a book. A friend suggested NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I tried it and loved it. I've been writing nearly every day since.