The Mother Ranch Blog

One of the things that happens after a family member dies is that the family dynamics change. Everyone is grieving separately and together and often that grief looks different. One person may cry a...

Happy Saturday friends!

Remember how I promised last week that I would have more animal pictures? Starting with the dogs:

Yesterday I got out of bed and when I came back a few minutes later, I Love...

B-Rad and I have been fixing fence this week. Don't ask me why "fixing fence" is the correct term, it just is—even though we all know it's not.  This farm has 40 year old wood fencing...

Happy Saturday!

I was gathering together the photos for this post and realized that I've been blogging for fifteen years now! Holy wow! There are actually 5 sprinkled across the internet!

Let's...

It was a busy week here at the farm. I follow someone who calls this week, "Seal Week" where the goal is to loll about in bed, roll over, sleepily blink at the wall and wonder what day it is. Even...

Mare-y Christmas! Haaaa! If you know, you know. If you don't...be glad! LOL, I kid! Mares are the best. Yes, they are opinionated in a way that a gelding (a fixed boy) typically isn't and they are...

Years ago I figured out how to be less worried about something.

I realized that one of the little things that always annoyed me was seeing pictures of myself. It was a rare occasion that I would...

A couple of weeks ago I started a new painting and as I go through the stages of painting, I’m being reminded in every studio session about “the ugly stage.” The words themselves...

My Mom's physical body is gone but she's all around me. I don't want to write about it and also I want to write about only it. Which means I do something else. Like organizing a drawer, cleaning a...

PRINT #1: Infinity Blue

Infinity Blue, acrylic, 20"x60"

This painting took me to unexpected places that I didn't, at the time, understand. Why was I feeling sadness, joy, frustration, silliness,...