I was born in Stuttgart, Germany but raised in the US by my single mother. I am Irish and English on her side and German on my father's. Ever since I was a little girl I have loved to read. My mother, always supportive, made it a point to take me to the library as often as I wished and to get to me to each and every school book fair. I would come home with bags of books and would gobble them up in only a few days. I would sit against my pony’s stomach when she was lying down in the pasture and read a book while she napped. I have had horses all of my life and have shown several more...