Smart Ass by Margaret Winslow
Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City. She met midlife agita not head-on, but ass-on, fulfilling a childhood curiosity about donkeys by answering a for-sale ad for a Large White Saddle Donkey in the American Donkey and Mule Society's magazine, The Brayer. Hilarity ensues, alongside life-threatening injuries and spirit-enriching insight. As listeners walk with Winslow and Caleb the donkey through training traumas, expert-baffling antics, and humiliating races, they also share in the author's gradual understanding of Caleb's true, undeniable gifts: a willingness to speak truth to power, to trust, and to forgive. Winslow incorporates these lessons into her life, and as Caleb and Winslow learn to thrive, listeners not only cheer them on but also learn a thing or three about being true to their own pure and powerful self.Margaret Winslow is a field geologist with over thirty years of experience in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, where she developed a fascination with donkeys in rural regions and set out to achieve a long-forgotten childhood ambition of owning one. She has a Ph.D. in geological sciences from Columbia University and has published over thirty publications in peer-reviewed journals around the world. Her investigation on earthquake dangers and archaeological settlement patterns in Alaska and Chile, supported by National Geographic, is featured in the award-winning PBS series Fire on the Rim. NPR's West Coast Live, CBS News Radio, and WABC Eyewitness News have all interviewed Winslow. Above My Head: Travels in Leaky Boats from the Strait of Magellan to Cape Horn and Beyond (2012) and The Cusp of Dreadfulness (2016) are her travel memoirs. Winslow is a professor emerita of earth sciences at City College of New York, and she and her oceanographer husband, Joe Stennett, live in the lower Hudson Valley of New York. Caleb, her donkey, boarded with fifty other horses and ponies nearby, and he continues to steal the show every day.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781608685905 |
| ISBN 10 | 160868590X |
| Title | Smart Ass |
| Author | Margaret Winslow |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New World Library |
| Year published | 2018-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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