lifstrand, Author at LIF STRAND

About lifstrand

Lif Strand began writing fiction when she was a kid. Nobody read her stories. A former Arabian horse breeder and endurance racer, then reporter and freelance white paper writer, Lif lives in a straw bale house off-the-grid and writes fiction once more--or at least whenever she’s not scooping horse poop, taking photos, or playing with fabric art.

It’s December 21

By lifstrand | December 21, 2024 - 7:06 pm |December 21, 2024 Art, Dark Green, Photography

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And you know what that means! Days are going to start getting longer and I say HURRAY to that! And even better, the sequel to Dark Green, will be published soon! Big announcement when that happens, for sure! Happy New Year!

What’s up?

By lifstrand | November 4, 2024 - 6:56 pm |November 4, 2024 Art, Dark Green, Education, Fabric art, Photography

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I don’t know about you, but the past months have been stressful. And yet I’m excited in a positive way. What’s up with that? What’s up is my feelings of excitement about things to come, and those feelings are based on things I’ve been doing. Such as: Art: Fabric, paints,… Continue reading →

Aurora, Reserve NM Oct 10 2024

By lifstrand | October 11, 2024 - 5:10 pm |October 11, 2024 Photography, Weather

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The photo on the left was taken from Reserve NM at 33.7131° N latitude (taken outside the house). I’m stunned that there was so much of it this far south! Note that this wasn’t visible to the naked eyeball, though around that time I could just see a kind of… Continue reading →

One of the perps

By lifstrand | September 21, 2024 - 11:57 pm |September 21, 2024 Critters, Photography

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Here we have a mug shot photo of one of the perps, taken on the second day of it and its partner’s deadly attack on the goldfish in my horse trough. Definite bad attitude. Zero remorse. Repeat offender. But the court will be lenient because some fish survived. Possibly all,… Continue reading →

Just another day on the ranch

By lifstrand | September 16, 2024 - 9:58 pm |September 16, 2024 Critters, Homesteading

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Today there were two killers on the ranch. Shocking but true. I first realized it when I heard the labored breathing of one of my two ranch dogs, Rosie, as she approached the house from wherever she had been and hurried out to the porch to make sure she was OK…. Continue reading →

Land of Enchantment

By lifstrand | August 31, 2024 - 12:06 am |August 31, 2024 Fabric art, Photography

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Have I mentioned before how much I love living in New Mexico? To me it totally lives up to its claim to be the Land of Enchantment. The place, especially the high country where I live, enchants me fully. It is never the same but it’s always magnificent. I took… Continue reading →

CRAZY!

By lifstrand | August 29, 2024 - 1:02 am |August 29, 2024 Writing Business

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That’s how I feel right now! Totally whacko crazy, but not in a bad way. I just now finally finished the revised revision of the edit of my manuscript! I’ll be sending it off to my editor tomorrow or Friday. And you know what this means? It means that I’m… Continue reading →

So much… overwhelm

By lifstrand | August 22, 2024 - 7:33 pm |August 22, 2024 Writing Business

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So much has happened and is happening right now! I’m this close to feeling totally overwhelmed… but I’m not there yet. Anyway, I want to apologize to whoever might have been wanting to know about what the heck is going on with the horses and the writing and whatnot. I… Continue reading →

What’s wrong with this picture?

By lifstrand | July 3, 2024 - 7:00 pm |July 3, 2024 Critters, Homesteading

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I’ll give you a hint about what’s wrong: The horse on the right is a stallion, the horse on the left is his daughter. There is no fence between them. Story to follow.

Of valerian and other out-of-control issues

By lifstrand | June 28, 2024 - 1:10 am |June 28, 2024 Art, Critters, Dark Green, Homesteading, Writing Business

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Before I say anything else, I want to mention that the flowers in the photo at left are pink valerian and orange marigold. When I found the valerian plant at a local nursery I got excited. I’ve discovered that valerian helps me get to sleep and I thought it would… Continue reading →