“She asks me how it went, I say it went bad. I don’t say much more because she hates hearing about my family like they hate hearing about her. It goes better when I keep it to myself.”

A vignette set in the pastry lab. ____________________________________________________________________________ Day Enshaw, solitary in the front row, was taking notes. “Some have it [genius] and some don’t (James Beard).” She stopped and stared at the quote. Then she scrawled it out and wrote underneath, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration (Thomas Edison).”

A short story about life on the race track. ____________________________________________________________________________ You slip into silks, jog to your mount’s stall and time your breathing by the second hand on your watch, trying to keep your hammering heart from knocking the air out of your lungs. It doesn’t do any good. The instant someone throws you up on some seventeen-hand tree of a Thoroughbred, your heart starts rapping its own crazy beat out of pure love.

A list of tips to help riders keep friends safe around their horses.

A quiz to help young riders gauge the effectiveness of their safety helmets.