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MARY  DANSAK

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Ride Along: Reflections From the Saddle

Ride Along: Reflections From the Saddle

Ride Along: Reflections From the Saddle

You are invited to ride along and enjoy observations, reflections, and musing from the saddle. These newsletters are published twice a month. Readers enjoy this behind the scenes look at life as a legacy writer at a horse and cattle ranch.

The Nature Crow: Columns

Ride Along: Reflections From the Saddle

Ride Along: Reflections From the Saddle

The Nature Crow is my weekly newspaper column, also published on Substack. These essays, written in a lighthearted and easily digestible style, offer a hybrid of nature writing and memoir. Join me as I exalt the wonders of the natural world.

Riding With Jasper

Ride Along: Reflections From the Saddle

Riding With Jasper

This Substack publication chronicles the return of horses into my life after a thirty-year hiatus. It covers the course of the year I bonded with a horse and the land under our feet, and returned to my truest self.

Other Writing - a sampler

The Journey of a Rescued Cracker Horse: Magnolia and Moonshine Magazine

Hope Hinges on Rahab's Rope: Magnolia and Moonshine Magazine

The Mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs: Magnolia and Moonshine Magazine

Sugar, Menthol, and Morgan le Fay: The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

A Sister's Guide to Grief: The Forge Literary Magazine

Screenwriter: Steve Trash Science: Alabama Public Television

Co-author: The Ploy of Cooking by the Mystic Order of East Alabama Fiction Writers

Co-Author: Mastering the Art of Wench Cooking by the Mystic Order of East Alabama Fiction Writers

Co-Author: The Mystic Memoir by the Mystic Order of East Alabama Fiction Writers

Co-Author: Be the Flame, Not the Moth by the Mystic Order of East Alabama Fiction Writers

Please visit my Substack publication, Look Homeward, Horse.

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