When we moved from Dallas to El Paso, I became a more serious rider. That's me on the right riding my horse Fancy with the El Paso mountains in the background.

When I was seventeen, I was invited to train with the United States Equestrian Team in California (a fact most people didn't know about me, until now). While I haven't ridden seriously since I was in college, it was a huge part of my life that often comes back through my writing.