September 23, 2025 Writing, Simply for the Joy of it.
My Mom, Marybeth (very much alive), spends $240. per month, co-sponsoring the horse, Murphy, at Bergen County Horse Rescue, in New Jersey.
Besides volunteering her time twice a week, she also is spending $320. per month for horse care, at the Sheridan Creek Equestrian Center, in Gardnerville, Nevada.
That doesn't include about $130. every 6 weeks, on horse cookies and carrots she shares, with many of the horses she has simply befriended.
And now, she's paying for John Lance, the farrier,to take care of Wiki's hooves every 2 months at $65, each visit.
What my Mom thought would happen,when she launched my Maisy Star series, was that she would sell loads of our books, and be able to give even more money,to help support multiple rescue organizations, in their care of horses and other animals.
Granted, Sheridan Creek is not a rescue organization, it's a private horse ranch for boarding, riding and training.But that's where my Mom started her hands-on work with horses, beginning with the Senior horses,
Then Wiki, who is in his 20's not 30's like the Seniors, moved in with Scooter, and then when Scooter passed, my Mom took Wiki under her wing.
And frankly, Kristin, the owner of the ranch,has many horses of her own that have been rescued by her, from neglect situations. Wiki is one of those horses.
So, my Mom feels good about giving her time and money,to the care of some of these horses.
Why am I telling you all of this?
Well, my Maisy Star books are not selling.
We had a post last year or maybe it was this year, where our books were ranked pretty high in the world of Amazon.
But frankly, that ranking (I think), is just about people browsing around Amazon's books.
It's not that they are buying them.
Even though 100% of profits go to animal rescue.
In this second half of the year, our profits were $1.62.
We don't know what the trouble is, even though we do a bunch of marketing.
My Mom says that maybe our books just don't catch shoppers' interest, and they are too expensive, because they have a lot of photos, which costs a lot to print.
So, it's a conundrum.
My Mom doesn't write to make money for charitable causes, she writes because it brings her Joy.
Clearly, you can see that our book production,is not raising funds for rescues and a bunch of horses.
My Mom personally funds these causes, because that brings her Joy too!
It would take thousands of followers,for any publishing company to be interested in producing our books, that's why my Mom self-publishes through Amazon.
(Drawback, very tiny royalties.)
We think that maybe my Mom's blog, could generate a lot of followers, but that has not happened....yet.
You may find it interesting that my Mom doesn't care.
Let me take that back.
She does care, A Lot A lot.
But, it won't make her stop what she's doing.
She writes a blog on the regular, and she has a horse book in the making.
She writes because she Loves to write, and that's that.
And knowing my Mom, she will keep on caring for horses, and spending her money on them, (even though they are not hers), because she's a nurturer.
It's in her blood.
And friends and relatives, send my Mom photos of their animal companions,
and my Mom Loves to share them, and her own photos, because she thinks they are uplifting, that they show people LOVE for animals and humans.She thinks hearts need uplifting, and if it can be through photos or words,we want to do that.
So....climb aboard, because we're not going anywhere but UP!
Positivity is our goal, LOVE always is our mantra.
Now, here are some of those photos I was just talking about.
We hope you enjoy them.
And, my Mom's blog, through me, Maisy❤️
My Mom stopped at her local market,and these 3 nosy-bodies said hello. Aren't they great??
My Mom's friend Lisa, fostered little Rue, from the Bruno Project, St. Lucia.
The even better news is that Rue has been adopted!
Rue lovin that doggie champagne!
My Mom's handyman Adrian, has a horse-loving youngster, named Gerry.
We like to start 'em young in loving horses!
My Mom's friend Paula, sent this beautiful photo of a couple of Assateague Park's wild horses, in Maryland.
This is a photo from Michelle Santana.
Michelle, a psychic medium, inspired my Mom to write about me.
That's huge!!
Alistair the cat, belonged to Michelle's Dad.
Alistair was a friendly roamer, who would often be brought into an unknowing neighbor's home.
Until the neighbor tried to keep him.
Then Alistair proceeded to pee every which way, until he was returned to Michelle's Dad.
Alistair, the fair weather visitor
Dawn, our neighbor and friend, was at it again!
She takes photos of the most beautiful places!
Echo Lake, South Lake Tahoe
Alfie has to rest, in between keeping up with Mom's sister, Robin
We think this photo is by Richard Villanova, an attorney from New Jersey, but we're not sure, hopefully we'll figure it out.
It's a beauty.
My Mom loves this photo
Now, I know if you have a cat or a dog, that sometimes you just can't move, when that cat or dog is lying on or next to you.
Onyx has my Mom trapped like a rat
If you were wondering whether there are still any bears in our neighborhood well, yes there are.
Our neighbor Dawn saw this one behind our local gas station.
And a pretty large one at that
This next photo is from my Mom's kindergarten pal, Deb,who came out from Florida to the Horse Retreat.
Deb sure gets around.
Red Rock Canyon, Colorado
My Mom's grandniece Audrina, is continuing her Love of horses.
We couldn't be happier about that.
Here's Audrina at Van Saun Park, NJ
My Mom's brother Mark (same photo at the top of this post),LOVES to fish! It's a PASSION.
It kinda runs in the family, but skipped over my Mom.
Here he's fishing near Robin's house, here at Lake Tahoe.
Mark, a passionate fisherman
Avery, has always wanted her own little pup.
Please join me in welcoming pretty little Sunni Rose!
They do everything together
My Mom's friend Anna, shared this photo of she and her husband's new "Rock Crawler"!
This is a scary sport to us, but it brings Anna and her husband GREAT JOY!
So, we're all for it!
A very mild crawl
My Mom's friend Dot sent a photo of her Stella.
Got to love these cats for finding neat places to be comfortable.
"Hey Stella, can you see the TV from there?"
This little angel, is Hayley, the niece of my Mom's last law clerk, John.
Hayley's first day of Kindergarten,we hope you LOVE school!
Thank you again for following our stories,as you know, we LOVE writing them!Do what you LOVE, be passionate about it!
Great things will follow!
LOVE,
Maisy❤️
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