HORSES!Riding my horses and teaching. "Teaching YOU to teach your HORSE", helping people with their horses, "Horse/Rider Harmony". Catch me at the next horseshow! Perennial student, tireless mom, school band booster, coach, avid volunteer, horse trainer, riding instructor, certified ropes course instructor, alternative education instructor, experiental education instructor, expert equestrian, carded horse show judge, champion rider, and always a teacher.My horses are my church, my faith, my sanctuary, my zen, my life. If you want to know more...just ask! "God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses."-Robert Browning.BIGGEST PET PEEVE: People who can't spell, can't write and use bad grammer! Also: People who don't know me, that like to tell other people lies about me, hypocrites, back-stabbers and two-faced people! People who say they hate people who are not honest and truthful and in fact are not themselves! "It is true that one who professes honesty and truthfulness is albeit a hypocrite."-Anonymous.I have many interests, mostly having to do with horses and riding of all types which are: Appaloosas, Arabians, Australian, Combined Training/Eventing, Dressage, Donkeys, Driving, English, Equitation, Hunter/Jumper, Mules, Mustangs, Paints, Parades, Quarter Horses, Re-Enacting, Sidesaddle, Showing, Thoroughbreds, Trail/Trails/Trail Riding, Welsh Ponies (section A), and Western. Pets and all animals, my dogs, Great Danes, German Shepherds, my cats, my goats, farm animals, and rescues.Travel, especially with my family (all over the U.S.), California, San Diego, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, museums/galleries, zoos, botanical gardens, wildlife parks, amusement and theme parks.Also interested in listening to talk radio, Art Bell (love Coast to Coast), intellectuals, feng shui, wabi-sabi, trivia, graphic design, writing articles for magazines and of course CHOCOLATE! Can't forget the chocolate!
All the great horsemen and women of the world.
Anything my kids (and young musicians) play on their instruments, in their marching band, jazz band, symphonic band, concert band and competitions and other school bands. Musical instruments my kids play now: didgeridoo, flute, piano, saxaphone (alto and bari), mellophone and trumpet (and learning clarinet).Movie Soundtracks, Classical, Classic Rock, Didgeridoo (Walt Young especially) and Jazz (the jazzier, the better - such as BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY)
ALL MOVIES! (I'm a TOTAL Netflix.com junkie!) Anything my daughter is in. "You can't judge a book by its movie."
Cop, detective, investigative, medical, mystery, paranormal, science fiction, reality, "whodunit", science (such as Nova), news, entertainment, information, and of course anything my daughter is in.
ALL! I can NEVER get enough reading done! I read anything and everything!Some favorite authors are:Douglas Adams, Mitch Albom, C.W. Anderson, Hans Christian Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Nevada Barr, Edgar Rice Borroughs, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, Tom Clancey, James Clavell, Margaret Coel, Jackie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, Daniel DeFoe, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Eisler, Janet Evanovich, Linda Fairstein, Walter Farley, Ken Follett, Dick Francis, Erle Stanley Gardner, William Golding, Zane Gray, John Grisham, Marguerite Henry, Tony Hillerman, S.E. Hinton, Will James, J.A. Jance, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Louis L'Amour, Harper Lee, C.S. Lewis, Robert Ludlum, Gregory Maguire, A.A. Milne, Craig Nettleton, Anais Nin, James Patterson, Edgar Allan Poe, J.K. Rowling, Carl Sagan, J.D. Salinger, Sidney Sheldon, Lemony Snicket, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Thurber, Alvin Toffler, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Wambaugh, H.G. Wells.Just to name a few, and anything and everything else I can get my hands on; I'm never without a book in my hand. "Always have a book and you'll always have something to do and never be bored." - Author Unknown.
My horses (including all the great horses you read about), my kids, my friends. Of course, the men and women in the Armed Services that protect the freedoms our great nation provides.