Magical Endorphins

All it took was another lesson, and all those muscles that had bunched up in shock unfurled again. It's always been my experience that whatever hurts after you horseride will feel better once you put your body back into position, and get those lovely, lovely endogenous opiates flowin'. So all of Thursday's aches and pains …

The Fruits of What I Am Like

Back in October, I wrote about the lengths I'm willing to go to get people to buy my novel, Drama Queen, egregious links notwithstanding. My latest caper was appearing in a panto, which was a legitimate journalistic assignment... along with an ad thrown in the programme for free [which I designed myself, sigh.] Here it …

Working on the, er, Ground

The other day, I was on the bus, and it seemed to me that while it doesn't exactly mimic the movement of a horse — well, not at all actually, not really — it seemed to me, anyway, that if I perched on the edge of my seat, I had to keep my balance using …

First Day Back

I am grudgingly getting to like my Blackberry Storm. It's not an iPhone [don't even get me started about trying to buy one of those godforsaken things over here], and an iPhone may very well do this, not that I'd know... anyway, I set the morning alarm, turn off the handset, and it turns itself …