CHAPTER 1 Miracle of Birth The big, beautiful, gray Arabian mare circled in her stall; her waters had already broken. She had lain down once already to position the foal. Her contractions were closer together now. She lay down again and started that one big push....
CHAPTER II The Horse Bug Twenty-Four Years Earlier It was a hot summer day. With our windows wide open, my mom and I drove down the road in our Volvo, with a borrowed horse trailer attached, headed to the auction yard. We were going to rescue a horse. This was...
CHAPTER 3 A Horse in the Barn That first night in the barn with my new mare, hundreds of thoughts ran through my mind. I couldn’t sleep. Mom had come to check on me with a hot cup of tea; it was soothing on those hot summer nights. “Just go to sleep. This will help,”...
