The Mother Ranch Blog

I listened to Leonie Dawson, one of my favorite podcasters: Mental Health in the Time of the Coronavirus and found, as usual, a piece of myself in what she has to say: I'm excited about the opportunit...

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For many years I've thought, "Well, I'll ignore it, I just won't respond," when confronted with racism, sexism, and homophobia. I recognize that ...

Oh my God, I'm such an instigator haaaaa!!! "Get him!" Our son had already nailed him with the hose once, heehee, might as well get him again right? Instead he ended up getting me and then talking us ...

In my early days of coaching training, I took the required Keirsey Bates Temperment Testing (which you can take online here.)  Stop rolling your eyes, there is a reason I'm bringing this up!

I am a E...

I'm reading Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall. His Born to Run book kept me going during the early part of a particularly gnarly phase of my life. Running with Sherman is giving me the gig...

We have a very prolific pair of Red House Finches who make a nest in an old satellite dish attached to our house. It's right outside one of the art studio windows and while the dish is an eyesore, t...

I was headed back upstairs to work and thought, "I need to go outside." I had this back and forth argument in my head, I needed to work vs be outside and visit with the animals. I finally decided 30 m...

Last year, I kept 2 baby goat boys (Poppy and Velvet Kiss) to be bucks. Sweetest, most loving babies ever! Velvet started this spring with putting his paws (hooves!) on me like he used to when he wa...

I had a funny thought one day, a Ranch Pride Parade :-) Those of you who know Sweetness, know he'd definitely be the one leading that parade and waving the flag—he loves everyone.

Hopefully next su...

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