Cowboy Logic — Mountain girl meets cowboy country

Sometimes the things that shaped us the most…didn’t feel important at the time.

In the Season 3 premiere of Cowboy Logic, I’m going back to a summer in the mountains of West Virginia — where we didn’t have much, but we had everything we needed.

Bare feet. Dirt roads. A single golf club my daddy found on the side of the road.

No plans. No money. No schedule.
Just long days, laughter, and a kind of freedom you don’t recognize until it’s gone.

I share a memory of the way we used to live — and the quiet realization that somewhere along the way, we started waiting for the right conditions before allowing ourselves to feel joy.

But back then… we didn’t wait.

Today’s Cowboy Logic:

Joy doesn’t need permission. It just needs you to show up.

Season 3 starts now.

I promised I’d share the most listened to episode of Season 2… and this is it.

I have to say, I really like this episode.

Season 2, Episode 11: “Staying Soft Is the Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Do” resonated with so many listeners, and I think it’s because no one gets through this life without having to choose between hardening and staying open.

After loss, heartbreak, or life just hitting harder than expected, it’s easy to shut down. To protect yourself. To harden.

But staying soft? Staying open? That takes real courage.

In this episode, I share a personal story about grief, healing, and how writing Starting Over in Montana helped me find my way forward.

Season 3 returns May 2. Until then… this one is for you.

Sometimes the hardest truth isn’t finding the answer.

It’s trusting the one you already know.

In this season finale of Cowboy Logic, I’m talking about that quiet voice inside you — the one that never leaves, even when life gets loud, uncertain, or painful.

I share the moment I almost walked away from writing after being ghosted by a publisher… and what brought me back. Not louder voices. Not outside validation. Just that steady knowing that refused to let me quit.

We all have it.

That internal compass. That instinct. That truth.

The question is — will you listen to it?

Today’s Cowboy Logic: You already know the way back to yourself. Trust your footing.

I’ll be stepping away for a few weeks to rest and write, but before I go quiet, I’ll be re-sharing the most-listened-to episode of the season — a reminder of the message that resonated the most.

Season 3 returns May 2nd.

You'd think strength is what breaks a wild horse.But ask anyone who's spent real time around animals that size, and they'll tell you something different.It's the soft hand that earns trust.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I'm talking about the choice that takes more courage than most people realize — the one that comes after life has already broken your heart.

After my husband died, I had a choice. Close my heart, build walls, decide that loving deeply wasn't worth the pain of losing. A lot of people make that choice. I understand it completely.

But I didn't want to live that way.

So I did something that sounds simple but wasn't. I started writing. And somewhere inside that first book — inside a heroine named Ivy Rose — I found a way through grief I hadn't been able to face alone. She sorted through the loss slowly, honestly, without rushing. And she brought me with her.

Soft doesn't mean weak. It never has.It means brave.

Today's Cowboy Logic: Staying soft is the hardest thing you'll ever do. So protect it.

New episodes every week. You can find my romantic suspense novels on Amazon.

Sometimes the hardest choice isn’t moving forward…it’s what you carry with you when you do.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I’m talking about bitterness—the kind that settles in quietly after loss, after disappointment, after life doesn’t go the way you thought it would.

In the span of a few years, I lost my husband, my father, and my brother. And just as I was trying to find my footing again, I was diagnosed with chronic illness… the kind that doesn’t show on the outside but changes everything on the inside.

There were days the loneliness felt heavier than anything else.

Bitterness would have made sense.It would have been easy.

But I learned something about bitterness—it doesn’t just sit quietly. It moves in. It takes over. And it doesn’t change a single thing that happened to you.

So I had to make a choice.

Through story and reflection, I share what it looks like to hold onto hope when you don’t have evidence it will work out… and why staying open might be the bravest thing you can do.

Today’s Cowboy Logic: You can’t ride bitter.
Some days hope is the only horse you’ve got. Ride it anyway.

New episodes every week.
You can find my romantic suspense novels on Amazon.

Sometimes the strongest thing you can do… is simply keep going.

There are no awards for showing up on the hard days. No recognition for the quiet work it takes to keep moving forward when you're tired, grieving, or running on empty.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I'm talking about the kind of strength that doesn't look like strength at all. The kind that lives in consistency. In stubbornness. In the simple decision not to quit.

Life isn't built on big, defining moments. It's built on the days in between—the ones where nothing feels extraordinary, but you keep showing up anyway.

In the span of a few years, I lost my husband, my father, and my brother. Loss came one after another, and I found myself facing a reality I hadn't planned for. In that space, I had to decide what I was going to do with the time I still had.

So I started writing.

Not because I felt ready. Not because I had a plan. But because I couldn't ignore the truth any longer—life is too short to wait.

Through story and reflection, I share why the quiet act of continuing may be the most powerful thing we ever do.

Today's Cowboy Logic: You don't have to win every round. You just have to still be standing when the dust settles.

New episodes every week.You can find my romantic suspense novels on Amazon.

Sometimes the most important things in life are the ones we hear only when everything finally goes quiet.

In a world full of noise, distraction, and constant motion, silence can feel uncomfortable. But silence has a way of revealing truths we might otherwise miss.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I’m talking about what we discover when life slows down and the noise fades away. The clarity that comes in stillness. The questions that surface when we finally stop running from them.

Fourteen years ago, my life changed in a way that brought a kind of quiet I had never experienced before. In that silence, I found myself facing grief, fear, and uncertainty—but I also discovered strength I didn’t know I had.

Out on a ranch, quiet isn’t empty. It’s where you hear the wind move through the grass and see a hawk hanging still above an open field. The land speaks if you take the time to listen.

Life has a way of working the same way.

Through reflection and story, I share why the quiet seasons in life can reveal more about us than the loud ones ever could.

Today’s Cowboy Logic: You learn who you are when things go quiet.

New episodes every week.

You can find my romantic suspense novels on Amazon.

Sometimes the long road feels like the wrong road.

In a world that celebrates shortcuts, it’s easy to believe that if something takes longer, you must be falling behind. But the long road often teaches us the lessons shortcuts never will.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I’m talking about why the slower path in life can become the one that shapes us the most. The patience it builds. The strength it forges. And the wisdom that only comes from walking through the struggle instead of around it.

Out on a ranch, a shortcut fix rarely holds. The fence you patch instead of mend eventually breaks when the storm comes. Life has a way of working the same way.

Through reflection and story, I share why the road that feels slow today might be the one preparing you for what comes next.

Today’s Cowboy Logic:
The shortcut always costs you more in the end.

New episodes every week.

You can find my romantic suspense novels on Amazon.

Scars don’t always look like damage. Sometimes they looklike survival.

Some scars show where we’ve been. Some show what we endured. And some become the very ground we stand on.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I’m talking aboutthe marks life leaves behind — loss, illness, and the battles no one else ever sees — and how the things that once felt like proof we were broken can become proof that we endured.

Out on a ranch, scars aren’t shameful. They’re history.They’re experience. They’re proof the animal — or the person — lived through it.

Through my own story and the people, I’ve met along the way,I share how strength and scars often come from the same place.

It’s the same truth I try to bring into the characters I write — people marked by life but still standing.

Because not every scar is a warning. Some are proof.

If you’re carrying something that changed you, this episodeis for you.

New episodes every week.

You can find my Montana romantic suspense novels on Amazon.

Storms don’t always come with lightning.
Sometimes they’re quiet. Grinding. The kind that soak through your bones and test what you’re made of.

In this episode of Cowboy Logic, I’m talking about what loyalty really looks like when life turns hard — when grief sits heavy, when exhaustion wins, when walking away would be easier.

On a ranch, you don’t abandon the herd mid-storm.
You check the fences.
You count heads.
You stay.

Through my own story — and the spirit of the West Virginia mountains that raised me — I share how staying, even when you feel broken, becomes legacy.

Because commitment doesn’t check the forecast.

If you’re standing in something hard right now, this episode is for you.

New episodes every week.
You can find my Montana romantic suspense novels on Amazon.