Smoot, Paisely

The author of Horses and Hearts has spent her entire life trying to understand nature, animals, human beings and music. At age eight she began writing a family newspaper on her father's typewriter. Upon graduation from high school she was encouraged to become a journalist, but she felt the need to learn about horses first and write later. After thirty years of training horses, riders, and working with hounds, she has retired to live in a one room passive solar cottage out in the country where the deer and the wild turkeys roam. She lives without electricity or running water. She kayaks five da...