Stories

The Inadvertent Discovery of a Calling

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I spent Wednesday morning bellied up to a table in Starbucks, chatting with a lovely reporter from the Lansing State Journal. She wanted to know about ONE and Ethiopia and how in the world a random girl, living in relative obscurity in the Middle of Nowhere, Michigan had come to be a part of all [...]

There Once Was a Mare

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She was tall and black, with legs that went on forever. In the summer her coat shimmered and her flanks faded to the richest chocolate brown I’d ever seen on a horse and have ever seen since. She was grade, had travelled halfway across the country before we’d met, and her history was unknown. The [...]