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What’s in a Heart?

All we really want is just to be loved. This is what our hearts want. I love my foal “Gracie” (“Pattis Belle”). She has a place in my heart. This position was cemented in my heart the day she was born.   . My…

Online Dating, The Eagles and The Real Camelot

Jim’s and my online dating photos:     Excerpt from My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz p. 14-15: “A Sampling of Dating Stories I had many dates from many states. My first date was with a haughty airline pilot in a cashmere sweater and a…

IN HONOR OF …

  December 31, 2015: I am honoring My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz Dr. Jim Kennedy today by re-posting my facebook post from last year, December 31, 2014. This is all I can think of to do to keep honoring him and remembering him as…

A Time to Smile

“A TIME TO WEEP AND A TIME TO LAUGH. A TIME TO MOURN AND A TIME TO DANCE.” ~Ecclesiastes 3:4~ It has been almost four years since I lost “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz,” Dr. Jim Kennedy. Life can come at times with vengeance…

The Grandest Gift

I love my new life helping with rescue horses and troubled youth and equine-assisted sessions for military veterans. (http://thesonandreinsranch.yfc.net/ and www.combatveteranscowboyup.org). But this love goes much, much deeper. I never thought I would make it through the severest of life storms. I wanted to…

THREE WORDS

Helping at Combat Veterans Cowboy Up I have spent a wonderful spring and summer helping at two ranches that serve rescued horses, youth, and veterans. What have I learned since I lost “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz,” Jim Kennedy? Three words. After 5 total…

Plowing On

It has been 2.5 years since “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz,” Jim Kennedy, passed on. A time of grief convulsions, fighting not to slide into the grief pit, learning to take one hour, then one day, at a time, and ultimately to use the…

GriefShare Gives Hope

My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz page 326 “How can I come out of all this and keep my faith? How can I live in 24/7 physical pain? And heartbreak pain? The bottom line I faced was, Am I going to trust God or not?…

The Smile

3/29/2014 “Boaz,” the thirteen-year-old rescued thoroughbred horse, at the Son and Reins Ranch, says, “I have been fed, I have been groomed, the sun is warming my body, I feel safe and secure. I don’t have to worry about being a prey animal right…

The Miracle of the Lost Ring

My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz p. 249 “My personal veterinarian told me that dogs with a broken pelvis are just put in a cage for six weeks to heal on their own. I pictured myself in a cage and that made me laugh too,…